Vintage Pop Fictions

pulp novels, trash fiction, detective stories, adventure tales, spy fiction, etc from the 19th century up to the 1970s

Monday, April 28, 2014

Alias Blackshirt

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The great success of E. W. Hornung’s Raffles stories which first started to appear in 1898  and the popularity of translations of Mauri...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales

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I read the first four stories in Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales several years ago. I have no idea why I then put the book aside, sinc...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

John Rhode’s The Venner Crime

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John Rhode (Major Cecil John Charles Street) The Venner Crime , published in 1933, was one of John Rhode’s many detective novels featur...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Mr Mortimer Gets the Jitters

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Berkeley Gray’s Mr Mortimer Gets the Jitters , published in 1937, introduced British thriller fans to yet another new thriller hero, a yo...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

The Saint on the Spanish Main

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In his excellent critical study of the thriller genres, The Durable Desperadoes , William Vivian Butler points out there are five quite d...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

So Evil My Love

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Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell Long (1885-1952) was a prolific English author who wrote under half a dozen pseudonyms. She is best reme...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Introducing the Toff

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Englishman John Creasey (1908-1973) may well be the most prolific author who has ever lived. He had at least 562 novels published during ...
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