Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Clayton Rawson’s The Headless Lady

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Stage magician and amateur detective The Great Merlini made his debut in Clayton Rawson’s 1938 novel Death from a Top Hat . Rawson wrote ...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Bellow Bill Williams in Argosy

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I don’t know anything about Ralph R. Perry other than the fact that he was a pulp writer who produced stories for magazines like Argosy . ...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Rex Stout’s Some Buried Caesar

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Some Buried Caesar was Rex Stout’s sixth Nero Wolfe mystery and appeared in 1939. It’s notable for being one of the fairly rare Wolfe bo...
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Thursday, May 12, 2016

John Rhode's Dead Men at the Folly

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Dead Men at the Folly was the thirteenth Dr Priestley mystery written by Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) under the pen-name John R...
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Saturday, May 7, 2016

The Blue Ice by Hammond Innes

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Hammond Innes (1913-1998) was one of the big guns in the British thriller scene in the postwar years. His first novel appeared as early a...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Miles Burton's Death at Low Tide

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Major Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was one of the most prolific of British golden age detective fiction authors. As well as seven...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. Levett-Yeats

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The Chevalier d'Auriac , published in 1897, was one of the novels that made S. Levett-Yeats one of the most popular Victorian writers...
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