Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Norbert Jacques' Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

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Dr. Mabuse is one of the greatest diabolical criminal masterminds in fiction. In Germany he became a pop culture icon on the scale of Sherlo...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

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Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Stuttering Bishop is a Perry Mason mystery published in 1936. It opens with a Church of England ...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

The Girl Who Loved Death

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The Girl Who Loved Death is a science fiction novella by Paul W. Fairman, originally published in Amazing Stories in 1952. Paul W. Fairman...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

William Knoles' Shame Market

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Shame Market is a 1964 sleaze novel written by William Knoles (1926-1970) under the name Clyde Allison. And this is sleaze with the emphas...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Vin Packer's The Girl on the Best Seller List

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Marijane Meaker (born 1927) has had a successful writing career in several different genres. Between 1952 and 1969 she wrote pulp crime no...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The Golden Boats of Taradata Affair (The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. TV tie-in novel)

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The Golden Boats of Taradata Affair by Simon Latter (published in 1967) is one of the five TV tie-in novels spawned by the 1966-67 televisi...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Erle Stanley Gardner’s pulp fiction, part 2 - the Lester Leith stories

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Erle Stanley Gardner is best remembered for the Perry Mason mysteries. Aficionados of golden age detective fiction also know him as the cr...