d4doome · @d4doome
663 followers · 1678 posts · Server mastodon.ieMickey Spillane’s 1964 novel The Snake is a sequel to The Girl Hunters and you absolutely must read The Girl Hunters first. This is a very different Mike Hammer - older, wiser and sadder. Both books are great, but read the earlier books first.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/06/mickey-spillanes-snake.html
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Leslie Charteris's The Saint Goes West, a 1942 collection of three Saint novellas. A transitional slightly Americanised version of Simon Templar which for me works less well than the earlier and later versions. But the stories are excellent.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-saint-goes-west.html
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The Verdict (1964) is a British Edgar Wallace B-movie. It concerns a gangster and a dubious visa which is a clue to a murder 20 years earlier. Well-made, well-acted, fast-moving, witty and clever with an intricate plot that works perfectly.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-verdict-1964.html
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Richard Sale's 1946 mystery novel Benefit Performance makes good use of the author's background as a Hollywood screenwriter. A movie star wakes up to find out that he was murdered the night before. Great stuff.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2013/05/benefit-performance.html
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Noël Calef’s novel Frantic (original French title Ascenseur pour ’échafaud) was published in 1956. The basis for Louis Malle’s superb 1958 film noir Elevator to the Gallows.
Lots of noirness, fine suspense, a powerful sense of impending doom, some nasty plot twists. Fine stuff.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/04/noel-calefs-frantic-ascenseur-pour.html
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The Girl With No Place To Hide (1959), a Marvin H. Albert Jake Barrow PI thriller written under the name Nick Quarry. Rescuing a girl leads Jake into the worlds of high fashion and photography and high-stakes gambling.
Good noirish stuff.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/03/nick-quarrys-girl-with-no-place-to-hide.html
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Dragon’s Cave (1940), Clyde B. Clason’s 8th Professor Lucius Theocritus Westborough mystery novel, offers not one but two locked-room puzzles. A collector of edged weapons is murdered with a 16th century Swiss halberd. Witty, polished, erudite.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2015/10/clyde-b-clasons-dragons-cave.html
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The Woman in Green (1945), the 11th Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movie and a good, rather dark, film. An original story that borrows elements from several Conan Doyle tales. London is terrorised by Jack the Ripper copycat murders.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-woman-in-green-1945.html
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Day Keene's Joy House was published 1954. A man loses five weeks of his life in an alcoholic haze. All he remembers is that he was a successful but unethical trial lawyer. And he does remember shooting his wife.
A nasty little erotic noir masterpiece.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/03/day-keenes-joy-house.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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William P. McGivern’s 1953 novel The Big Heat was the source for Fritz Lang’s classic film noir of the same name. A good noir novel about an obsessed cop and with a complex sympathetic femme fatale. But Lang's movie is better.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2012/03/william-p-mcgiverns-big-heat.html
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Orrie Hitt’s 1954 novel She Got What She Wanted is fairly typical of his work, blending noir fiction and sleaze fiction. This one is very noir, as a girl gets tired of living on farm and heads to the big city to make her fortune, at any cost.
It's not just noirish, it's very good noirish fiction.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/03/orrie-hitts-she-got-what-she-wanted.html
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Leigh Brackett's 1944 novel No Good from a Corpse is fine hardboiled stuff. A PI takes a case for a client he hates. There's a rich assortment of crooked PIs, deranged alcoholics, insane ex-cons and as many no-good dames as you could wish for.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2013/07/no-good-from-corpse.html
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Lorenz Heller's superb 1957 noir novel Dead Wrong (written under the name Larry Holden) concerns a guy in danger because of a package people think he received. He never got the package and has no idea what was in it, but he could still be killed for it. Plus he could face a murder rap. There are also two potential femmes fatales to worry about.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/02/lorenz-hellers-dead-wrong.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
535 followers · 1353 posts · Server mastodon.ieCharles Williams' novel Nothing in Her Way (1953) deals with a whole series of fascinating confidence tricks.
Intricate and skilful plotting, ingenious confidence tricks, characters with some depth, taut suspense, an ambiguous hero and a femme fatale - what more could you want? Highly recommended.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/charles-williams-nothing-in-her-way.html
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Time To Prey, an enjoyable 1960 entry in Frank Kane’s long-running Johnny Liddell PI thriller series. A pretty girl passes a letter to Johnny and then gets murdered.
Johnny Liddell is a Mike Hammer clone, but more cold-blooded and less ethical. But Kane is just not in Spillane's league as a writer.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/frank-kanes-time-to-prey.html
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The Three-Way Split is a 1960 pulp noir title by Gil Brewer. It concerns a treasure hunt.
The protagonist is a genuine noir hero. He’s a good man but with weaknesses. He’s a decent guy but he’s desperate. He needs that treasure. What will a man do for that sort of money?
This is fast-moving action, perhaps more adventure noir than straightforward crime noir. Recommended.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/06/gil-brewers-three-way-split.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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In Leslie Charteris's The Saint's Getaway (1932) Simon Templar is on holiday with his beloved Patricia Holm when he gets mixed up with some stolen jewels.
This is the early version of the Saint when he's a crime-fighter but still a criminal as well, and he's reckless, irresponsible and irrepressible.
A rollicking roller-coaster ride to adventure.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-saints-getaway.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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I read 23 hardboiled/noir fiction titles in 2022. The best?
Bill S. Ballinger's Portrait in Smoke (1950).
https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2022/11/bill-s-ballingers-portrait-in-smoke.html
James O. Causey's The Baby Doll Murders (1957) https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2022/06/o-causeys-baby-doll-murders.html
Lionel White's Clean Break (AKA The Killing, 1955)
https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2022/08/lionel-whites-clean-break-killing.html
Henry Kane's Frenzy of Evil (1963)
https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2022/08/henry-kanes-frenzy-of-evil.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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High Heel Homicide is a 1961 hardboiled crime novella by Frederick C. Davis.
A guy finds his boss murdered, just after seeing a woman jump into a car and speed off.
A solid mystery, fairly clued, rather pulpy but that's a feature not a bug. Very enjoyable.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/11/frederick-c-daviss-high-heel-homicide.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Simon Iff Stories and Other Works, an excellent collection of occult detective tales by Aleister Crowley (yes, that Aleister Crowley).
They're rather unique. There are no supernatural elements whatsoever. Not even paranormal phenomena. These are all very human crimes. But Simon is a magus and he uses Crowley’s philosophy/religion to solve the crimes.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2013/05/aleister-crowleys-simon-iff-stories-and.html
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