Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Rog Phillips' World of If

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Roger Phillip Graham (1909-1966) had a moderately successful career as a writer, using various pseudonyms. He is regarded as one of the peop...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

R. Austin Freeman’s The D’Arblay Mystery

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R. Austin Freeman’s The D’Arblay Mystery was published in 1926 and it’s another Dr Thorndyke mystery. Although written in 1926 it tells of ...
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Friday, April 16, 2021

Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

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Pu Songling (1640-1715) was a Chinese Confucian scholar who amassed a huge collection of tales generally known as Strange Tales from a Chine...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Lawrence Block's Borderline

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Lawrence Block is a much-admired contemporary mystery writer but since I have virtually no interest in contemporary fiction I must confess t...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Bart Frame’s The Black Satin Jungle

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Bart Frame’s The Black Satin Jungle (also published as Indiscretions of a French Model) was published in 1953. It’s a sin and sensation po...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Leigh Brackett’s Last Call from Sector 9G

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Leigh Brackett’s Last Call from Sector 9G is a science fiction novella first published in Planet Stories in 1955 ( Planet Stories really ...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Gavin Lyall’s Judas Country

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Judas Country , published in 1975, was the last of Gavin Lyall’s aviation thrillers. Englishman Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) had established hims...
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