Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Fletcher Flora's Leave Her To Hell

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Leave Her To Hell is a private eye thriller by Fletcher Flora, published in 1958 by Avon. It’s an expanded version of a short story, Loose ...
Friday, October 20, 2023

John Taine’s The Purple Sapphire

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John Taine’s The Purple Sapphire is a 1924 lost world adventure tale. John Taine was a pseudonym used by mathematician Eric Temple Bell (18...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Orrie Hitt's The Cheaters

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The Cheaters is a 1960 sleaze noir novel (actually much more noir than sleaze) by Orrie Hitt, published by Midwood Books in 1960. Orrie Hit...
Monday, October 16, 2023

A.S. Fleischman's Malay Woman

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Malay Woman is a 1954 thriller by A.S. Fleischman. A.S. ‘Sid’ Fleischman (1920-2010) Fleischman was an American professional magician worki...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Niven Busch’s The Furies

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I recently bought the Criterion DVD of Anthony Mann’s 1950 western The Furies and included as an extra is Niven Busch’s 1948 novel of the s...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Lawrence Block’s The Girl with the Long Green Heart

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Lawrence Block’s writing career has, incredibly, spanned more than sixty years. I’ve read a few of his early sleaze novels (which are pretty...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

Frank Belknap Long's Mission to a Distant Star

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Mission to a Distant Star is a short science fiction novel by Frank Belknap Long which appeared in Satellite Science Fiction in February 1...