Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Dennis Wheatley’s Contraband

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Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977) achieved his greatest lasting fame with his Black Magic occult thrillers but they were a comparatively small ...
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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Earl Derr Biggers' The Dollar Chasers

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Earl Derr Biggers Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) is of course best-known for the rather wonderful Charlie Chan detective stories. Before ...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Edgar Wallace’s Big Foot

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Edgar Wallace’s 1927 thriller Big Foot is one of his more obscure novels but it’s actually rather a treat. Wallace had a knack for c...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

R. Austin Freeman's Best Dr Thorndyke Detective Stories

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The 1973 Dover paperback collection The Best Dr Thorndyke Detective Stories includes eight stories by one of the most important of al...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Manning Coles’ Drink to Yesterday

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Drink to Yesterday , published in 1940, was the first of Manning Coles’ spy novels featuring Tommy Hambledon. Manning Coles was a pseudo...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Corpse in the Crimson Slippers

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One thing you have to say about the mystery novels of R. A. J. Walling (1869-1949) - there’s none of that transcending the genre nonsense...
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Saturday, June 20, 2015

J.-H. Rosny Aîné's The Young Vampire

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Belgian-born Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (1856-1940) was a science fiction author who wrote in collaboration with his brother Séraphin Just...
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