Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Saturday, December 29, 2018

best reads of 2018

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These were my favourite reads of 2018. They’re listed by publication date, not in order of merit. Here’s the list, with links to my review...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Sax Rohmer’s President Fu Manchu

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President Fu Manchu was the eighth of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels. It appeared in 1936 and it marks an interesting departure for the se...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Rolling Bones

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Erle Stanley Gardner’s 1939 Perry Mason mystery The Case of the Rolling Bone s adheres closely to the formula Gardner had well and truly e...
Friday, December 7, 2018

The Finding of Lot's Wife by Alfred Clark

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The Finding of Lot's Wife is a lost world adventure tale. The author was a certain Alfred Clark, of whom I know nothing whatsoever. I...
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Saturday, December 1, 2018

Ethel Lina White’s Some Must Watch (The Spiral Staircase)

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Ethel Lina White’s suspense novel Some Must Watch was published in 1933. In the 40s it was filmed as The Spiral Staircase and subsequent...
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Friday, November 23, 2018

Rex Stout's Under the Andes

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Rex Stout (1886-1975) wrote the first of his Nero Wolfe mysteries, Fer-de-Lance , in 1934. He would go on to wrote another 32 Nero Wolfe n...
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Friday, November 16, 2018

Murder by the Dozen

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In the mid-1930s Hugh Wiley (1884-1968) wrote twelve short stories featuring Chinese-American detective James Lee Wong. The stories were l...
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