Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Alan Melville’s Quick Curtain

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Alan Melville’s Quick Curtain was published in 1934. William Melville Caverhill (1910-1983) had along and colourful career in the theatre...
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Saturday, August 17, 2019

Thea von Harbou's The Indian Tomb

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Thea von Harbou (1888-1954) was a German novelist and screenwriter. She was married for a time to Fritz Lang. She wrote the screenplays fo...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

Christopher St John Sprigg's Death of an Airman

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Death of an Airman was the fourth of seven detective novels written by Englishman Christopher St John Sprigg (1907-37). It was published ...
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Friday, August 2, 2019

John Sherwood's Ambush for Anatol

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Ambush for Anatol was the third of John Sherwood’s five spy thrillers featuring Charles Blessington. It was published in 1952 (and in the...
Friday, July 26, 2019

E. and M.A. Radford's Murder Jigsaw

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E. and M.A. Radford were an English husband-and-wife writing team. They wrote thirty-eight mysteries, beginning in 1944 and continuing unt...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

Conan Doyle's Adventures of Gerard

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was during his own lifetime as celebrated for his historical fiction as for his detective stories. Among his most p...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019

About the Murder of a Startled Lady

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Between 1930 and 1932 Anthony Abbot wrote four detective novels, very much in the Van Dine mould, featuring New York Police Commissioner T...
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