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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Maureen Ogle · @maureenogle
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