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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d4doome · @d4doome
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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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d4doome · @d4doome
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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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d4doome · @d4doome
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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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d4doome · @d4doome
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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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d4doome · @d4doome
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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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d4doome · @d4doome
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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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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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Saint Errant, a 1948 short story collection by Leslie Charteris which introduces a somewhat different version of the Saint.
Simon Templar is now a loner, with just the slightest touch of melancholy although of course combined with his thirst for adventures. The adventures are no longer as outlandish.
Very different in tone from the early 30s Saint stories.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/05/leslie-charteriss-saint-errant.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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Edgar Wallace’s The Feathered Serpent (published in 1932) is a typical Wallace thriller. It has murder and secret societies and old grudges that demand to be settled. And it's non-stop fun.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2013/03/edgar-wallaces-feathered-serpent.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
43 followers · 38 posts · Server mastodon.ieWhat am I hoping for here? Discussions about classic movies, horror movies and cult movies obviously. Most cult genres from the 30s to the 80s. And vintage popular fiction genres. Mostly I like stuff that the mainstream regards as trash. So, some hashtags.
#classicmovies #horrormovies #cult movies #eurocultmovies #driveinmovies #pulpfiction #vintagemysteries #scifi #noirfiction #filmnoir #spymovies #spyfiction #jamesbond #ianfleming #vampiremovies #gothichorror #hammerhorror #trashfiction
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