Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Thursday, August 28, 2014

John Dickson Carr’s The Devil in Velvet

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To say that John Dickson Carr’s The Devil in Velvet , which was first published in 1951, is an unconventional detective novel would be a ...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

The Occult Files Of Francis Chard

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Yet more occult detective tales! I do seem to be a bit obsessed by this odd genre. The slim volume The Occult Files Of Francis Chard inc...
Friday, August 22, 2014

The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe

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The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe was the thirteenth of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason mysteries, appearing in 1938, and it’s a part...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The Female of the Species

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The Female of the Species was the fifth of the Bulldog Drummond novels produced by H. C. McNeile (under the pseudonym Sapper). It first ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was the fourth of the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Sayers has a huge re...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger

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Goldfinger was the seventh of Ian Fleming’s James Bond spy thrillers. The popularity of the Bond books had grown steadily since the publ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Murder Must Advertise (1973 TV adaptation)

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Fans of the Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels of Dorothy L. Sayers might be interested in my review of the extremely good 1973 BBC televisi...
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