d4doome · @d4doome
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Lust Queen (AKA The Decadent), a 1961 sleaze novel written by Robert Silverberg as Don Elliott. A writer employed to ghost a movie star's autobiography finds that sharing her bed is part of the deal. Silverberg wrote thoughtful quality sleaze.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/robert-silverbergs-lust-queen-aka.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Midnight Lace is a 1960 Ross Hunter-produced US crime film set in London which gave Doris Day her last, and best, serious dramatic role. It's almost a proto-giallo, but with echoes of GASLIGHT. A top-notch mystery/suspense/psychological thriller.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/midnight-lace-1960.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Bright Blue Death, a 1967 Nick Carter Killmaster spy novel. There are super-lasers and a dead scientist who has turned blue, literally. There's a splendid crazy bad girl and a fine kinky megalomaniac villain. Great pulp spy thriller stuff.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/07/nick-carter-bright-blue-death.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Green Ribbon is a 1929 Edgar Wallace thriller involving an ingenious horse-racing racket with a large and varied collection of villains. And an elaborate system of caves and tunnel, a classic Wallace touch. Top-tier Wallace. Great stuff.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/07/edgar-wallaces-green-ribbon.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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Francis Durbridge's The World of Tim Frazer is a 1962 spy novel based on his 1960-61 TV serial (which sadly has not survived). A very ordinary man gets mixed up in the murky world of espionage, just the sort of thing Durbridge did very well.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2018/10/francis-durbridges-world-of-tim-frazer.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Mickey Spillane’s 1967 spy thriller The Delta Factor. A thief is forced to do a job for the government, breaking a scientist out of an impregnable 17th century fortress. He also wants revenge. Fun, and more lighthearted than his Hammer books.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/04/mickey-spillanes-delta-factor.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Hammerhead (AKA Shockwave), a violent action-packed 1963 Johnny Fedora spy thriller by Desmond Cory. Fedora, a ruthless British spy with a licence to kill, was created in 1951, a year before Bond.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/04/desmond-corys-hammerhead.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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Dennis Wheatley's 1933 novel Such Power Is Dangerous has no occult elements but plenty of classic Wheatley features - an over-the-top conspiracy theory, a bizarre convoluted plot, lots of paranoia and ludicrously but delightfully excessive villains.
And it has another feature familiar to Wheatley aficionados - an intense dislike of much of the modern world.
Great fun.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2014/03/such-power-is-dangerous.html
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