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Monday, August 9, 2021

Teen-Age Mobster (aka The Life and Times of a Tough Guy)

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Benjamin Appel (1907-1977) grew up in Hell's Kitchen, NY, and attended the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. He author...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Ben Corbin #1: Sgt. Corbin’s War

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Among the over 100 books he authored employing a variety of pseudonyms, Con Sellers (1922-1992) wrote a six-book series starring a soldier-t...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Ghost Bullet Range (aka Blood on the Saddle)

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One of the most collectible pulp magazines of all time is the August 9, 1919 issue of All-Story Weekly. This publication featured the first ...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Where Are the Children?

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With decades of bestsellers, Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020) was considered the queen of suspense. Of her 51 novels, the majority contained w...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Psi-Power #01: Brain Twister

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Using the joint pseudonym of Mark Phillips, science fiction authors Randall Garrett (1927-1987) and Laurence Janifer (1933-2002) collaborate...
Monday, August 2, 2021

The Extortioners

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Ovid Demaris (1919-1998) wrote nearly 20 novels of crime-fiction as well as 14 non-fiction books about crime. The author has been reintrodu...
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Friday, July 30, 2021

The House of Numbers

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Walter Braden, Jack Finney (born John Finney, 1911-1995) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended Knox College in Illinois. Aside from...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

The Secret of Haverly House

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From the book notes, Carolyn Bauman was born in Oakland, California. After attending UCLA, she won many poetry awards and published short st...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

The Collector Comes After Payday

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The August 1953 issue of Manhunt featured a novella from Kansas native and World War 2 U.S. Army veteran Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) that h...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

The Woman is Mine

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Harry Whittington preferred to sell his novels to Fawcett Gold Medal because the paperback imprint paid more and sold more units than rival...
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Monday, July 26, 2021

Do Evil in Return

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Margaret Ellis Millar (born Margaret Ellis Sturm, 1915-1994) was a mystery writer originally from Ontario, Canada. In 1938, Margaret married...
Friday, July 23, 2021

James Rhodes #01 - Black Cop

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Joseph Gober Nazel (1944-2006) was a Vietnam War veteran and a successful writer for Los Angeles African-American publications such as The...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Lt. Clancy #02 - Mute Witness

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Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish (writing as Robert L. Pike) was adapted into the movie Bullitt starring Steve McQueen with significant devi...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

The Circular Staircase

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I recently became fascinated with the American mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart . She wrote several novels and short stories between 190...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Deathlands #06 - Pony Soldiers

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Laurence James wrote a number of successful western titles like Crow , Apache and Gunslinger  in the 1970s and 1980s. His violent narrati...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Sam Watchman #02 - The Threepersons Hunt

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Brian Garfield (1939-2018) wrote westerns throughout the 1960's. Beginning in the early 1970s, the author began writing crime-fiction,...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

Apalachee Gold

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Frank G. Slaughter (1908-2001) is an alumnus of Duke and Johns Hopkins University. He became a successful surgeon in 1930, working first in ...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

The Hunters

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Clark Howard (1932-2016) authored novels in genres like crime, military, action-adventure and spy. I really enjoyed working my way through ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Fog Island #02 - Fog Island

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Canadian William Edward Daniel Ross (1912-1995) was a prolific author who wrote nearly 300 novels in his career. Specializing in multiple g...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Men's Adventure Quarterly #02

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Earlier in the year, Men's Adventure Quarterly made its debut. The concept is to bring back the style and substance of action-adventure...
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