Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Seabury Quinn’s The Dark Angel

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The Dark Angel is a collection of tales by Seabury Quinn that were published in Weird Tales in the early 1930s. It includes his short novel...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Gil Brewer's The Three-Way Split

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The Three-Way Split is a 1960 pulp noir title by Gil Brewer. Gil Brewer (1922-1983) was an American pulp writer who started out with litera...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Lionel Davidson’s The Night of Wenceslaus

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The Night of Wenceslaus was the first of Lionel Davidson’s spy thrillers. It was published, to considerable acclaim, in 1960. Lionel Davids...
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Thursday, June 17, 2021

Walter Wager’s Telefon

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Walter Wager’s 1975 spy thriller Telefon is interesting for several reasons, the most notable being that the hero is a KGB agent. And he is...
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Saturday, June 12, 2021

Charles Eric Maine's Spaceways

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Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction novel by Charles Eric Maine and it has an interesting history. It began life as a very successf...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Bruce Graeme's Seven Clues in Search of a Crime

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Seven Clues in Search of a Crime is a 1941 mystery by Bruce Graeme and it’s a bookish mystery - the amateur detective hero is a bookseller....
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Saturday, June 5, 2021

Ed McBain's Cut Me In (AKA The Proposition)

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American writer Ed McBain (1926-2005) was born Salvatore Lombino but legally changed his name to Evan Hunter in 1952. He wrote under various...
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