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More #vintagecrime content from the June 1940 edition of 'The Strand Magazine'. 'The Clue In The Sky', a story by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) featuring Inspector March, whom Boris Karloff played in a TV series in the 1950s. #detection #detectives #crime #crimefiction #BorisKarloff #1940s

More #vintagecrime content from the June 1940 edition of 'The Strand Magazine'. 'The Clue In The Sky', a story by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) featuring Inspector March, whom Boris Karloff played in a TV series in the 1950s. #detection #detectives #crime #crimefiction #BorisKarloff #1940s

Another #vintagecrime gem from the June 1940 edition of 'The Strand Magazine' - Poirot in 'The Erymanthean Boar', one of the 'Labours of Hercules' stories. @[email protected] @[email protected] #AgathaChristie #Poirot #detection #crime

Another #vintagecrime gem from the June 1940 edition of 'The Strand Magazine' - Poirot in 'The Erymanthean Boar', one of the 'Labours of Hercules' stories. @[email protected] @[email protected] #AgathaChristie #Poirot #detection #crime

Poirot spells out the danger in this Jack Faulks illustration for 'Triangle At Rhodes' in the May 1936 edition of 'The Strand Magazine'. #AgathaChristie #Poirot #detection #vintagecrime @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Hercule Poirot confronts a suspect in 'The Second Gong' by Agatha Christie. The illustration is by Jack M Faulks, scanned from a 1932 edition of The Strand Magazine. #Poirot #HerculePoirot #AgathaChristie #detection #vintagecrime

The Black Key is an obscure 1946 psychiatric murder mystery. A psychiatrist has a patient who thinks she's committed a murder. It's totally off-the-wall with crazy and ludicrously contrived dream clues. It doesn’t make sense but it's enjoyable.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/10/m-scott-michels-black-key.html

#vintagecrime #pulpfiction #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers

In Edgar Wallace's The Door with Seven Locks a retired cop has to deal with a burglar hired to pick the lock on a tomb, a stolen library book and keeping tabs on an errant lord. Hints of gothic creepiness. Hugely entertaining.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/09/edgar-wallaces-door-with-seven-locks.html

#vintagecrime #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #EdgarWallace

The Saint and Mr Teal AKA Once More The Saint is a 1933 collection of three Saint novellas by Leslie Charteris. With some lovely twisty devious sting-in-the-tail endings. This is the second version of Simon Templar, without his gang but with Patricia. Stylish fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-saint-and-mr-teal-once-more-saint.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagecrime #TheSaint #SimonTemplar #LeslieCharteris

The Saint and Mr Teal AKA Once More The Saint is a 1933 collection of three Saint novellas by Leslie Charteris. With some lovely twisty devious sting-in-the-tail endings. This is the second version of Simon Templar, without his gang but with Patricia. Stylish fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-saint-and-mr-teal-once-more-saint.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagecrime #TheSaint #SimonTemplar #LeslieCharteris

The Saint and Mr Teal AKA Once More The Saint is a 1933 collection of three Saint novellas by Leslie Charteris. With some lovely twisty devious sting-in-the-tail endings. This is the second version of Simon Templar, without his gang but with Patricia. Stylish fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-saint-and-mr-teal-once-more-saint.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagecrime #TheSaint #SimonTemplar #LeslieCharteris

The Saint and Mr Teal AKA Once More The Saint is a 1933 collection of three Saint novellas by Leslie Charteris. With some lovely twisty devious sting-in-the-tail endings. This is the second version of Simon Templar, without his gang but with Patricia. Stylish fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-saint-and-mr-teal-once-more-saint.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagecrime #TheSaint #SimonTemplar #LeslieCharteris

The Saint and Mr Teal AKA Once More The Saint is a 1933 collection of three Saint novellas by Leslie Charteris. With some lovely twisty devious sting-in-the-tail endings. This is the second version of Simon Templar, without his gang but with Patricia. Stylish fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-saint-and-mr-teal-once-more-saint.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagecrime #TheSaint #SimonTemplar #LeslieCharteris

Honey West, the original tough cookie action heroine. Dig a Dead Doll, from 1960, was the seventh Honey West novel. This time there's murder in the bullring in Mexico. As usual Honey loses her clothes. Hardboiled, violent, sleazy, stylish, fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/gg-ficklings-dig-dead-doll.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagecrime GGFickling #HoneyWest #privateeyes

Ed McBain's Cut Me In was published in 1954. A guy wakes up next to a blonde. He has no idea who she is. Then he finds his partner Del Gilbert lying dead on his office floor. The safe is open. A good solid mystery with some tasteful sexiness.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/06/ed-mcbains-cut-me-in-aka-proposition.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #EdMcBain #vintagecrime

Ed McBain's Cut Me In was published in 1954. A guy wakes up next to a blonde. He has no idea who she is. Then he finds his partner Del Gilbert lying dead on his office floor. The safe is open. A good solid mystery with some tasteful sexiness.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/06/ed-mcbains-cut-me-in-aka-proposition.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #EdMcBain #vintagecrime

Ed McBain's Cut Me In was published in 1954. A guy wakes up next to a blonde. He has no idea who she is. Then he finds his partner Del Gilbert lying dead on his office floor. The safe is open. A good solid mystery with some tasteful sexiness.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/06/ed-mcbains-cut-me-in-aka-proposition.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #EdMcBain #vintagecrime

Ed McBain's Cut Me In was published in 1954. A guy wakes up next to a blonde. He has no idea who she is. Then he finds his partner Del Gilbert lying dead on his office floor. The safe is open. A good solid mystery with some tasteful sexiness.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/06/ed-mcbains-cut-me-in-aka-proposition.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #EdMcBain #vintagecrime

Ed McBain's Cut Me In was published in 1954. A guy wakes up next to a blonde. He has no idea who she is. Then he finds his partner Del Gilbert lying dead on his office floor. The safe is open. A good solid mystery with some tasteful sexiness.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/06/ed-mcbains-cut-me-in-aka-proposition.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #EdMcBain #vintagecrime

I love occult detective stories. Aleister Crowley’s Simon Iff stories belong to this genre but with a distinctive flavour all their own. Nothing supernatural or paranormal here but Iff uses Crowley's philosophy to solve crimes. Offbeat but fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2013/05/aleister-crowleys-simon-iff-stories-and.html

#occultdetective #occultdetectives #SimonIff #vintagecrime #AleisterCrowley #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries

Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel is a 1953 noir novel. Tim plans a big heist but gets mixed up in a complex tumultuous relationship with a high-class call-girl. As a noir novel it's pretty good. As a twisted love story it’s excellent.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/03/elliott-chazes-black-wings-has-my-angel.html

#noir #noirfiction #vintagecrime #pulpfiction #ElliottChaze

Just before WW1 Max Rittenberg wrote a series of clever short stories featuring scientific detective Magnum, a bad-tempered conceited arrogant scientist who dabbles in crime solving if a case interests him or if he’s offered enough money.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-invisible-bullet-other-strange.html

#vintagecrime #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries

The Festival of the Dead, a fine collection of tales by Sidney Herschel Small published in the pulps in 1931, set in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Plenty of action and paranoia as a Chinese-speaking cop battles a diabolical criminal mastermind.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/03/sidney-herschel-smalls-festival-of-dead.html

#vintagecrime #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #pulpfiction #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #pulpfiction #pulpmagazines

James O. Causey's Frenzy (1960) features noir fiction's most vicious treacherous conscienceless amoral protagonist. He plans to con a big operator and gets mixed up with a deadly thousand dollar a night whore. Noir fiction on steroids. Superb.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/03/james-o-causeys-frenzy.html

#noir #noirfiction #vintagecrime #pulpfiction

Darwin Teilhet’s 1952 noir novel Take Me As I Am starts with an armoured car holdup. With a bazooka! Plenty of suspense and lots of action towards the end, plus a twisted romance and a dame who might be a good girl or a bad girl. Good stuff.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/02/darwin-teilhets-take-me-as-i-am.html

#noir #noirfiction #vintagecrime

Calvin Clements' 1954 novel Satan Takes the Helm has a nautical setting. A freighter captain is drawn into an intrigue with the owner's very much younger and obviously sex-starved wife. A classic well-crafted noir tale with a fine femme fatale.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/02/calvin-clements-srs-satan-takes-helm.html

#noir #noirfiction #vintagecrime

Eugene Thomas’s Bait for Men, stories from the 1930s about Vivian Legrand, The Lady From Hell. Thief, blackmailer, murderess, cruel, vindictive, without moral scruples. She's also smart, resourceful and daring. A classic sexy bad girl.

Here's my review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/01/eugene-thomass-bait-for-men.html

#vintagecrime #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #pulpfiction #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers

Gaston Leroux’s historically important impossible crime novel The Perfume of the Lady in Black, published in 1908. There are several murders and disappearances and a significant childhood memory. And there's one body too many. Fairly enjoyable.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/01/gaston-lerouxs-perfume-of-lady-in-black.html

#vintagecrime #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #GastonLeroux

Gil Brewer's Nude on Thin Ice, a 1960 noir novel with a protagonist driven by greed and lust. The male and female characters are all depraved and corrupt. Very sleazy, very noir and very good. And there is a nude in the book and she is on ice.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/01/gil-brewers-nude-on-thin-ice.html

#noir #noirfiction #vintagecrime #GilBrewer

I read 37 crime novels in 2023. The highlight was Lawrence Block’s The Girl with the Long Green Heart from 1965. I just love novels about con-artists. And this is a great one.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/10/lawrence-blocks-girl-with-long-green.html

#noir #noirfiction #LawrenceBlock #vintagecrime

Fredric Brown’s The Far Cry was published in 1951. A man is digging up evidence on a Lonely Hearts murder eight years earlier. A psychological crime novel, but focusing on the psychology of the amateur detective rather than the killer. Not bad.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/12/fredric-browns-far-cry.html

#vintagecrime #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #FredricBrown

The Case of the Painted Girl is a 1931 mystery novel by Frank King, a very obscure English writer. It's not a puzzle-plot mystery, it's an unabashed potboiler featuring a full-blown Diabolical Criminal Mastermind. Fast-paced enjoyable nonsense

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/03/frank-kings-case-of-painted-girl.html

#vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #DiabolicalCriminalMasterminds #vintagecrime

Dial ‘M’ for Man is an excellent 1962 Orrie Hitt novel. He's usually described as a writer of sleaze fiction but mostly his books are noir fiction with some sleaze. This one is pure noir fiction. An honest TV repairman meets a dangerous blonde.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/12/orrie-hitts-dial-m-for-man.html

#vintagecrime #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #sleazefiction #vintagesleaze #orriehitt

Strangers on a Train (1950) was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel. I love Hitchcock’s 1951 film (which departs radically from the book) but I very much disliked Highsmith’s novel. I'm not a fan of agonisingly psychological crime novels. YMMV.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/11/patricia-highsmiths-strangers-on-train.html

#crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #PatriciaHighsmith #AlfredHitchcock

Kiss for a Killer, a 1960 Honey West PI novel by Gloria and Forest Fickling (as G.G. Fickling). Honey investigates a nudist religious cult. Unashamedly violent, lurid, trashy and sleazy with hints of kinkiness. And extraordinarily enjoyable.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/honey-west-kiss-for-killer.html

#pulpfiction #vintagecrime #HoneyWest #privateeye #privateeyes #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers

Mickey 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

#crimenovel #crimenovels #crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagemysteries #vintagemystery #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #privateeyes

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

#crimenovel #crimenovels #crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #LeslieCharteris #thesaint #SimonTemplar

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

#crimenovel #crimenovels #crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #LeslieCharteris #thesaint #SimonTemplar

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

#crimenovel #crimenovels #crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #LeslieCharteris #thesaint #SimonTemplar

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

#crimenovel #crimenovels #crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #LeslieCharteris #thesaint #SimonTemplar

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

#crimenovel #crimenovels #crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #LeslieCharteris #thesaint #SimonTemplar

Gang Rumble, a 1958 juvenile delinquent potboiler by Edward S. Aarons writing as Edward Ronns. Two young punks get closer and closer to the edge of insanity. Aarons refuses to sentimentalise juvenile delinquents. Has a few nice noirish touches.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/05/edward-s-aarons-gang-rumble.html

#juveniledelinquents #crimefiction #crimenovel #crimenovels #vintagecrime #EdwardSAarons #noirfiction #pulpfiction

John Dickson Carr’s The Devil in Velvet (1951) is certainly an unconventional detective novel. How many fictional detectives enlist Satan's help to solve the crime? And it involves time travel. Definitely not your average crime novel. I love it.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2014/08/john-dickson-carrs-devil-in-velvet.html

#crimefiction #crimenovel #crimenovels #vintagecrime #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #JohnDicksonCarr #timetravel

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

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1960smovie #1960smovies #Britishcinema #britishmovie #britishmovies #crimemovie #crimemovies #vintagecrime #EdgarWallace

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

#vintagecrime #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #RichardSale

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

#noir #noirfiction #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #vintagecrime #1950scrime #crimefiction #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #NoelCalef #filmnoir

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

#noir #noirfiction #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #vintagecrime #1950scrime #crimefiction #privateeyes #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #MarvinHAlbert #NickQuarry #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers

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

#noir #noirfiction #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #vintagecrime #1950scrime #crimefiction #privateeyes #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #MarvinHAlbert #NickQuarry #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers

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

#noir #noirfiction #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #vintagecrime #1950scrime #crimefiction #privateeyes #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #MarvinHAlbert #NickQuarry #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers

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

#noir #noirfiction #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #vintagecrime #1950scrime #crimefiction #privateeyes #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #MarvinHAlbert #NickQuarry #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers