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Thursday, April 28, 2022

James Bond #03 - Moonraker

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James Bond's third series installment, Moonraker , was first published in the U.K. as a hardcover by Cape on April 5, 1955. Macmillan p...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Earl Drake #06 - Operation Drumfire

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After the success of The Name of the Game is Death (1962) and One Endless Hour (1969), crime-noir author Dan J. Marlowe found his heist h...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Elin Warner #01 - The Sanatorium

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According to Penguin Random House, Sarah Pearse grew up in Devon, UK and studied creative writing and English at the University of Warwick. ...
Monday, April 25, 2022

The Make-Believe Man

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Elizabeth Jane Phillips (1916-1996) authored nearly 20 stand-alone novels over the course of thirty years. Often, she adopted the pseudonym ...
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Friday, April 22, 2022

Killer

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Before he was science-fiction royalty, Robert Silverberg was a cranking out cheap genre paperbacks to make ends meet. His output included ...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Five Total Strangers

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I spend a lot of time at Target. My wife loves the place and one of my daughters loves throwing away wads of cash for overpriced records of ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Image of a Ghost

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We've talked a great deal about prolific author Norman Daniels , but haven't posted a single review for his wife's work. Dorothy...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The Iron Marshal

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The Iron Marshal , L'Amour's 94th novel, was originally published by Bantam in 1979. It is the traditional L'Amour storytelling...
Monday, April 18, 2022

The Grave's in the Meadow

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To the extent that he’s recalled at all, Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976) is remembered for his pseudonymous work in men’s adventure paperbac...
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Friday, April 15, 2022

Ed Noon #17 - Assassins Don’t Die in Bed

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The character of Ed Noon began as a traditional wisecracking, skirt-chasing private eye in the mold of Richard Prather’s Shell Scott . Ove...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Nowhere to Hide

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R. Patrick Gates is a teacher, young adult and horror author, husband, and dog owner. Beginning in the 1990s, Gates has authored a number ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Say it with Bullets

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Richard Pitts Powell (1908-1999) was a Princeton man, an ad man, and a newspaper man who worked on Douglas MacArthur’s staff during World Wa...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Race Williams #02 - Three Thousand to the Good

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“Three Thousand to the Good” by Carroll John Daly is a 20-page short story that originally appeared in the July 15, 1923 issue of Black Mas...
Monday, April 11, 2022

The Woman on the Roof

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According to Wikipedia, Helen Nielsen (1918-2002) authored television scripts for classic mystery shows like Perry Mason and Alfred Hitchco...
Friday, April 8, 2022

Gold Bait

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Colonel Corby spent years fighting in Korea and Vietnam before an injury ended his military career. After rehabbing at a local hospital, Co...
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Thursday, April 7, 2022

Cage of Ice

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Duncan Kyle is the name printed on a number of 1970s and 1980s high-adventure novels. In reality, this is John Franklin Broxholme (1930-200...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Paperback Warrior Primer - Jack Pearl

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The first thing to know about Jack Pearl is that the name is a pseudonym of Jacques Bain Pearl. Pearl was born in Richmond Hill, New York i...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

X-Files - Goblins

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I'm an X-Files fan, one of those weird X-Phile nuts. To prove it, I have an old trunk filled with show toys, coffee mugs, calendars, bo...
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Monday, April 4, 2022

Hugh North 18 - Two Tickets for Tangier

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Francis Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978) was a renowned international traveler and author with 78 books to his credit. He began his career writing...
Friday, April 1, 2022

The Many

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The Many (2016) is the first book in a trilogy of psychological horror thrillers by American author Nathan Field. I sampled the first chap...
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