Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Victor Canning's The House of the Seven Flies

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Victor Canning (1911-1986) was a very popular English thriller writer who had a 50-year career. His thriller The House of the Seven Flies w...
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Friday, December 27, 2024

John Charles Beecham’s The Argus Pheasant

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John Charles Beecham’s novel The Argus Pheasant was serialised in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly in 1917. I’m afraid I can’t tell you ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Carter Brown’s The Wanton

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English-born Australian writer Alan Geoffrey Yates (1923-1985) wrote 215 novels and 75 novellas and sold around 120 million books. He create...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Dean Koontz’s Demon Seed

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Dean Koontz’s proto-cyberpunk science fiction Demon Seed was published in 1973. You have to be really careful with this one. He extensively...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Richard Jessup's Night Boat to Paris

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Night Boat to Paris is a spy thriller by Richard Jessup (1925-1982). It was a paperback original, published by Dell in 1956. Jessup was an ...
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

Donald Hamilton's Mad River

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Mad River , published in 1956, is one of the handful of westerns written by Donald Hamilton. Hamilton of course is best known for his spy fi...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Marty Holland’s The Glass Heart/The Sleeping City

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Marty Holland’s novel The Glass Heart was published in 1946. Her novella The Sleeping City was written in 1952. They’ve been issued in a s...