Showing posts with label British pulp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British pulp. Show all posts
Thursday, June 05, 2014

Pulpografia Britannica to the printers

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Just sent my Pulpografia Britannica to the printers. Here's the cover by Ville Manninen who did spectacular job. It was a 15-year wor...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Kenneth Royce

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Of all the British pulpsters and paperbackers I've been covering in my forth-coming book, there have been only a few writers whose work ...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

Michael AKA Mike Hervey, pt. 2

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I promised to say something about short story writer Mike Hervey's short stories. I covered what I know of his life in this post . It...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Michael AKA Mike Hervey, pt. I

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My forth-coming book on British paperbackers doesn't really cover the writers who specialized in short stories. There are two reasons fo...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Philip Chambers and Sexton Blake

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Philip Chambers is a writer almost next nothing is known of. He was born in 1936, is possibly dead by now, wrote six Sexton Blake stories in...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Sean Gregory's serial hero Mack Regan

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I'm sure not many of you have heard of Sean Gregory, not even by his real name, Harry Hossent. He started out in the early 1950s writing...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

John Wainwright: four crime novels

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As I mentioned earlier, I read four novels by British writer  John Wainwright to be mentioned in my forth-coming book on British crime pape...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Bibliographic puzzle: Ronald Wills/Hans Vogel: What Comes Next?

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I've dealt in my research with some bibliographic problems before, but this one is a real puzzle. I don't even know where to start...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Basil Copper's Mike Faraday

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In my on-going research into British pulp and paperback crime writing, I read the two novels by Basil Copper translated in Finnish. Both ha...
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Friday, December 13, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: H. L. Lawrence: The Sparta Medallion

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H. L. Lawrence wrote only two books. The other one, called both  The Children of Light  (1960), is the better-known of the two, since Josep...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Paul Denver: The Deadly Chance (1973)

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Okay, I'm cheating here a bit. This is one of the books I'm including in my forth-coming book on British paperback crime fiction. I ...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: Frank Struan: Murder's So Unpleasant (1954)

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In my on-going, but sporadic study of British paperback crime fiction, I read, almost in a jiffy, a short booklet by Frank Struan, called Mu...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013

More info on the Brian McDermott mystery

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I was in contact with the archive of the Otava publishing house, who put out the book that left me astounded some days back: Brian McDermott...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Another bibliographic mystery: Brian McDermott

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Now off to another mystery surrounding a book published in Finnish, supposedly translated from English, but seemingly not in English. Bria...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Lando series as by Tex Kirby?

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One of the Finnish Landos: "Don't Show Mercy, Lando" There are fourteen books published in Finnish paperback series as by...
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Peter Chester: Murder Forestalled

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As many of you may remember, I've been doing a book on British paperback crime writers for years now – actually for over ten years... I ...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Harry Hobson and the Hank Janson series

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I just posted the bibliography of Harry Hobson's outings in the British Hank Janson series on my bibliography blog here . Anyone know a...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Stanley Morgan: The Courier

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In my on-going exploration of British crime and adventure paperbacks, I dipped into The Courier by Stanley Morgan. I left it pretty soon wh...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: My Bonny Lies Under the Sea

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Ray Alan was the pseudonym of one Joseph Lawrence Valls-Russell (born probably in 1922, died in 2007) of whom not much is known. Seems like ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: Adam Diment: The Dolly Dolly Spy

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Adam Diment's The Dolly Dolly Spy (translated in Finnish with a misleading title Nukkevakooja ) was an enormously popular spy novel pub...