Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Mr Midshipman Hornblower

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Mr Midshipman Hornblower was the sixth of C.S. Forester’s Hornblower novels to be published. It appeared in 1950. When The Happy Return ...
Friday, February 15, 2019

John Dickson Carr’s The Mad Hatter Mystery

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The Mad Hatter Mystery , written in 1933, was the second of John Dickson Carr’s Dr Gideon Fell mysteries. It gives Carr the opportunity to...
Friday, February 8, 2019

James P. Hogan's Inherit the Stars

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James P. Hogan (1941-2010) was an English science fiction writer. Inherit the Stars , published in 1977, was his first novel. He later wro...
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Saturday, February 2, 2019

Rupert Penny's Sealed Room Murder

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Rupert Penny was one of the pseudonyms used by Ernest Basil Charles Thornett (1909-1970), an English author who wrote a small number of my...
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Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Last of Sheila (1973)

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After reading JJ's rave review  over at The Invisible Event I simply had to to see The Last of Sheila. A fair-play murder mystery t...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Dr Yen Sin #1 The Mystery of the Dragon’s Shadow

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In 1936 Popular Publications ceased publication of their Yellow Peril pulp The Mysterious Wu Fang . It was immediately replaced by a new Y...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Clifford Knight's The Affair of the Jade Monkey

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Clifford Knight (1886-1963) was an American writer who wrote a substantial number of mysteries featuring amateur detective Professor Hunto...
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