Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Monday, July 26, 2021

F. Van Wyck Mason’s The Castle Island Case

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F. Van Wyck Mason’s 1937 mystery The Castle Island Case belongs to a particularly fascinating sub-genre - the mystery novel with visual clu...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Fletcher Flora's Killing Cousins

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Killing Cousins is a 1961 novel by Fletcher Flora which fits at least vaguely into the noir pulp style of the time. Fletcher Flora (1914-19...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Laurence Meynell's The Frightened Man

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The Frightened Man is a 1952 Hooky Heffernan private eye novel by Laurence Meynell. Laurence Meynell (1899-1989) was a British writer and h...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Jack Williamson's The Alien Intelligence

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The Alien Intelligence is a short novel by American science fiction writer Jack Williamson (1908-2006). The title suggests some kind of fir...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

Alexander Wilson’s Wallace of the Secret Service

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Alexander Wilson’s Wallace of the Secret Service was published in 1933. It’s a collection of short stories and it even includes a locked-ro...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

Robert van Gulik's The Chinese Nail Murders

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Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch diplomat, orientalist scholar and writer whose first literary endeavour was his translation into En...
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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...
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