Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Saturday, October 29, 2016

John Bude's The Sussex Downs Murder

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The Sussex Downs Murder was the third of John Bude’s mystery novels and appeared in 1936. John Bude was a pseudonym used by Ernest Elmor...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Desmond Cory's Undertow

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Englishman Shaun Lloyd McCarthy (1928-2001) was the author of many books including the sixteen Johnny Fedora spy novels written between 1...
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Friday, October 21, 2016

E.W. Hornung's The Crime Doctor

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The Crime Doctor is a 1914 collection of linked short stories by E.W. Hornung, a writer best known for his very successful stories of th...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

The Branded Spy Murders by F. Van Wyck Mason

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The Branded Spy Murders was the fifth of F. Van Wyck Mason’s twenty-six Hugh North spy thrillers. The first of the Hugh North books appe...
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Saturday, October 15, 2016

some vintage crime film reviews

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Some recent reviews of vintage crime films from my movie blog. Johnny Angel (1945) is an interesting RKO film noir with a nautical theme ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Baited Hook

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Erle Stanley Gardner’s sixteenth Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Baited Hook , was published in 1940. It’s a fine example of the quali...
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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil

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Ira Levin (1929-2007) wrote only a handful of novels but that handful included some major bestsellers, the best-known being probably Rose...
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