Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Friday, November 25, 2016

Hake Talbot’s Rim of the Pit

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I’m not by any means obsessed with locked room or impossible crime stories but it’s a sub-genre I do enjoy when it’s done well, and Hake ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Desmond Bagley’s The Vivero Letter

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The Vivero Letter was the fifth of Desmond Bagley’s thrillers. It was published in 1968. This is only the second Bagley thriller I’ve re...
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Thursday, November 10, 2016

R. Austin Freeman's A Silent Witness

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A Silent Witness is an early detective novel by R. Austin Freeman (it was published in 1914) and it contains most of the features that c...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Len Deighton’s An Expensive Place To Die

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An Expensive Place To Die was the fifth and final installment of Len Deighton’s unnamed spy series (sometimes referred to as the Harry Pa...
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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...
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