Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Friday, December 29, 2017

reading highlights of 2017

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This year I’m going to do something slightly different. I’m not going to do a “best reads of 2017” list because if I did that it would be a ...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Substitute Face

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The Case of the Substitute Face was the twelfth of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason mysteries. It was written in 1938 and it’s a fine e...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Berkeley Gray’s Conquest Marches On

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Conquest Marches On , published in 1939, was the fourth of Berkeley Gray’s Norman Conquest thrillers. Gray was actually the incredibly pro...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

J. J. Connington’s Mystery at Lynden Sands

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Mystery at Lynden Sands , published in 1928, is one of J. J. Connington’s earlier mysteries featuring Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffiel...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Leigh Brackett’s The Sword of Rhiannon

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Leigh Brackett’s sword-and-planet adventure The Sword of Rhiannon was published in book form in 1953. It had originally been serialised i...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

John Rhode’s Death on the Board

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John Rhode’s 1937 Dr Priestley mystery Death on the Board (published in the United States as Death Sits on the Board ) opens with a bang....
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Alistair MacLean's The Golden Rendezvous

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Alistair MacLean was well and truly on a roll when he wrote his eighth novel, The Golden Rendezvous , in 1962. It’s fairly typical of his ...
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