Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Sunday, May 28, 2017

John Ferguson's Death Comes to Perigord

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John Ferguson (1871-1952) was a Scottish clergyman who enjoyed success as a playwright and as an author of mystery thrillers. His mysteri...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Leigh Brackett’s Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories, review part one

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Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was one of the more notable practitioners in the popular pulp genre of sword and planet stories. The sword and...
Monday, May 15, 2017

The Missing Money-Lender by W. Stanley Sykes

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W. Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) was an English doctor who wrote a handful of detective novels in the early 30s. The Missing Money-Lender (a...
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Sunday, May 7, 2017

Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust

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A Fall of Moondust was published in 1961 at a time when its author, Arthur C. Clarke, was at the peak of his powers as a science ficti...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Arthur W. Upfield’s Mr Jelly's Business

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Mr Jelly's Business (also published as Murder Down Under ) was a fairly early entry in Arthur W. Upfield’s cycle of mysteries featur...
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Friday, April 21, 2017

Dennis Wheatley's They Found Atlantis

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Dennis Wheatley was most famous for his “Black Magic” occult thrillers but these were only a small part of his very large output. Wheatle...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Victor L. Whitechurch’s Murder at the Pageant

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A village pageant, a stolen pearl necklace and a body in an antique sedan chair are the main ingredients in Victor L. Whitechurch’s enjoy...
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