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Western Story Magazine – 9 June 1928
This is Western Story Magazine for June 9, 1928, published by the Street & Smith Corporation. The cover illustration is by Stockton Mulford. All story illustrations are by Frederick Thomas...
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Creasey Mystery Magazine # 6 (February 1957)
Creasey Mystery Magazine (v1 n6, February 1957) was published by Dalrow Publishing and was edited by Leslie Syddall. The cover art is signed R. W. S., who I covered loosely with #4. The lead story is...
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Death in the Desert by Fred Amor
Published by P.M. Productions Ltd under their Pyramid Books line is Death in the Desert by Fred Amor. Priced at 9d, the story text runs from page 3 to 96 but is widely spaced apart, especially with...
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Murder is My Mistress by Harry Whittington
When Julia receives a phone call from, twice, from a married man asking for her to come quickly to his house to assist his wife with their newborn baby, it’s to discover that he never made such a...
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Men of the West by E. C. Tubb (writing as Chet Lawson)
E. C. Tubb’s Men of the West first appeared under the Chet Lawson byline and was published by John Spencer as number 13 in their Lariat Western Series of paperbacks for November 1956. John Spencer...
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RIDERS OF THE BAR X and DEAD MAN’S RANGE by W. R. Hutton
Because I am a sucker for punishment, you are receiving a two-fer for my troubles. Hutton is one of those writers I deplore reading. His stories are often bland, with weak plots and weak characters....
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Western Trails – [October 1932] – an A. A. Wyn pulp magazine
The start of 2023 heralded the arrival of a vast 1930s collection of Western Trails pulp magazines. Sadly, an overwhelming majority of them were reading copies. This, the October 1932 issue, is no...
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William L. Rohde (1918-2000) — the real history of a literary writer and...
When I first decided to investigate author William L. Rohde, it was to great consternation that I discovered very little about him online. I was reading one of his crime novels and felt that this was...
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Aylwin Lee Martin – a brief history of a literary writer
Our author, Aylwin Lee Martin, was born 27 October 1894 in Richmond, Virginia to Samuel P. Martin and Hattie Mae Tyler, both born in North Carolina. Over the course of twenty years, his mother gave...
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Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction (25 June 1927)
Originally titled Flynn’s, this highly regarded detective pulp magazine began in 1924 and ran through a variety of title changes. But quality always seems to have remained. Published by The Red Star...
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Miss Lucas Takes a Lover by Frank Griffin
Miss Lucas Takes a Lover by Frank Griffin was published by Hamilton & Co., circa 1946-1948. Not a single major English library possesses a copy, nor is it mentioned in the Whitaker’s indices, so...
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Dead Man’s Spread by John Theydon
John Theydon authored numerous westerns during the late 1940s. Dead Man’s Spread was published 1948 by Martin & Reid (London) under their Mascot series, with story text spanning pages 3 to 96....
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Greek Street Tragedy by Maurice Levinson (Digit Books, 1964)
Maurice Levinson was born 19 October 1910 into a Russian-Jewish family who emigrated to England while he was a youth. Death records online provide his full name as Maurice Isaac Levinson, death being...
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PHANTOM [Vol. 1 No. 6, September 1957] a weird stories magazine
The sixth issue of Phantom magazine [September 1957] was published by Dalrow Publications with a charmingly ghoulish ghost cover illustration by Ronald W. Smethurst signing as R.W.S. Its editor,...
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ROUGHRIDERS BRAND by J. M. Henderson (UK: Curtis Warren Ltd., 1950)
I’ve been ripping through reading reams of American and British westerns. Roughriders Brand by J. M. Henderson, published by Curtis Warren Ltd. in 1950 is filled with all manner of plot twists. Would...
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No Dice! by Al Bocca (UK: Scion Ltd., 1951)
No Dice! was published circa April 1951 by Scion Ltd. and represents the 13th novel written by Bevis Winter under the Al Bocca pseudonym. The cover art is signed Ulrich; they created numerous covers...
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Six-Gun Magic by Morton T. Cayne
I purchased this western for the action cover art by Oliver Brabbins. His 1940s western illustrations are always exciting and set the bar quite high. To be honest, the moment I began reading Six-Gun...
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The Shadow vs The Cobra (in) The Shadow Magazine – 1934
This is the Canadian edition of The Shadow Magazine for 15 September 1934; its American counterpart appeared 1 April 1934, five months earlier. I’ve no clue why the Canadian edition failed to appear...
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Western Story Magazine – 21 April 1928
My third consecutive issue of Western Story Magazine from 1928 is this April 21 issue which also features the third of five installments for Cherry Wilson’s Thunder Brakes. Lacking the next two, I’ve...
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Roaring Lead, or, The Three Mesquiteers by William Colt MacDonald (1935)
I picked up Roaring Lead by William Colt MacDonald at a regional used bookshop for $2. It’s published by Avon, appearing September 1974 and is the first Avon paperback edition. The copyright page...
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