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YARD LENGTHS: 5 Detective Stories by Donald Shoubridge
In 1946, Pendulum Publications released Yard Lengths, a collection of five detective stories by Donald Shoubridge, the first issue in their short-lived Pendulum Popular Detective Series. The...
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PHANTOM [Vol. 1 No. 1, 1957] a weird stories magazine
The cover proclaims Phantom magazine to feature “true ghost stories” but does it? The editorial inside suggests that some of the stories claim to be true and some are fiction, but the editor decided...
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I am actively searching for vintage books authored by Norman Firth written under a myriad of aliases. Many are noted below. This list is not complete, as there are publications I am not aware of. He...
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DARKER GROWS THE STREET by Bevis Winter (the 3rd Steve Craig thriller)
Published August 1955 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd., Darker Grows the Street is the third novel in the Steve Craig crime thriller series. Bevis Winter returns for his third outing with his sarcastic private...
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The Mystery of the Abominable Snowman by Michael Waugh (Australia: Cleveland,...
Nearly a decade ago I posted a slew of plot synopses to various vintage publications on Facebook’s Southern Pulspters group. Over the years I have made an effort towards rescuing many of them from...
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Cherokee Fowler by Chuck Stanley (and the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889)
Chuck Stanley was one of many aliases used by Charles Stanley Strong. Born 29 November 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, Strong went on to become a global adventurer and fiction writer. A look at his...
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Jonathan Guest by Margaret Archer (UK: Jarrolds, 1952)
In 1952, English hardcover publisher Jarrolds published Margaret Archer’s Jonathan Guest. It is an historical romance, a vast break from her crime / detective novels. And depending upon one’s...
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Creasey Mystery Magazine # 4 (November 1956)
Creasey Mystery Magazine (v1 n4, November 1956) was published by Dalrow Publishing and unlike its preceding three issues, sports a full color illustrated cover. Edited by Leslie Syddall, this issue is...
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Western Trails [February 1931] – an A. A. Wyn pulp magazine
Early 2023 I lucked into a large 1930s collection of the pulp Western Trails magazine. I featured many of the covers and spines from the haul in a blog early last year. Sadly, many of the issues have...
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PHANTOM [Vol. 1 No. 2, May 1957] a weird stories magazine
Regular readers and followers will recollect the first issue I blogged six months ago identifying half the contents as reprints. This issue has 18 fiction stories and two articles. Sadly, I wasn’t...
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Border Vengeance by John Theydon (UK: 1948)
Way back in 1996 I attended my first PulpCon in Bowling Green, Ohio with my brother. The Bowling Green location was close enough that Canadian collectors and dealers attended and sold their goods,...
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Over the Top (February 1930) Street & Smith pulp fiction magazine
Over the Top (Feb 1930) Over the Top (February 1930) was published by Street & Smith and features cover art by H. T. Fisk (Harry Thomas Fisk). This is a great issue leading off with military...
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Larabee of Big Spring by Chuck Stanley
A while back I had the distinct pleasure of reading a western by Charles Stanley Strong, an author that wrote many westerns and juvenile stories via house names Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon. As...
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Mammoth Detective [v2 #4, August 1943] a Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. pulp magazine
Mammoth Detective, August 1943 Many years ago, I acquired a small pulp collection courtesy a person performing our country a service along the southern border. In preparing an abandoned home for...
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Queer Trails to Doom by Gladwell Richardson (1948)
Queer Trails to Doom Queer Trails to Doom by Gladwell Richardson was published 1948 (registered November) by Background Books Ltd. The novel begins on page 3 and concludes on 124. But don’t be...
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Awake to Die! by James V. Nolan (aka: J. Vincent Nolan)
Published by World Distributors in 1950 is Awake to Die! by James V. Nolan. Usually penned as J. Vincent Nolan, the author began his literary career during the postwar 1940s within Irish publications....
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Thrilling Western (pulp) 1945 September
Thrilling Western – Sep 1945 Thrilling Western (1945 September) features an action cover featuring a colorful cowboy riding a horse while twisting and firing his six-gun at someone pursuing him while...
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THE NIGHT WAS MADE FOR MURDER by Bevis Winter (the 5th Steve Craig thriller)
The Night Was Made for Murder is the fifth (of 9) Steve Craig private-eye thrillers published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd. This appeared in 1957. The blurb on the jacket reads: “Elliot Bord was murdered on...
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Gun Smoke on the Plains by Zed Kelly
Following the second world war, Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd. contracted various Canadian publishers to send them digest-paperbacks and comics, etc. The final product in many cases equated to a...
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PHANTOM [Vol. 1 No. 3, June 1957] a weird stories magazine
The third issue of Phantom features a release date of June 1957 and has cover art by R.W.S. (Ronald W. Smethurst). Once again no editor is noted but we can assume it is Leslie Syddall. This is the...
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