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THE JUKEBOX KINGS: A Tough New Thriller by Doug Allyn
If you’re a reader of Ellery Queen and/or Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, you’re well acquainted with Mr. Doug Allyn. He’s had well over a hundred stories published in those two magazines over the...
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RAFAEL DeSOTO Paperback Covers
As you may have noticed, Mr. Rafael DeSoto is one of my favorite pulp cover artists. He did tons of great work on The Spider, Black Mask, and many Popular and Thrilling mags. But he also toiled on into...
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Weird paintings by Margaret Brundage
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Forgotten Books: ANGEL'S FLIGHT by Lou Cameron
This book was doubly hard to put down. Not only is the story compelling, but the language is so lively you’re anxious to see what surprises the next paragraph will bring. It’s sort of like Dashiell...
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AMAZING! ASTONISHING! WEIRD! The Complete Pulp Magazine Covers Vol. 2
Todd Frye, author of four earlier picture-packed books (Fantastic Planets: The Complete Pulp Magazine Covers Vol. 1, Passion and Peril: The Complete Men's Magazine Covers Vol. 1, I Was a Teenage...
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Forgotten Books: WAR AGAINST THE MAFIA by Don Pendleton
Reading this book again was like reuniting with a long-lost friend. I read all 37 of Don Pendleton’s Executioner books sometime in the ‘70s, and again in the ‘80s (he wrote books 1 thru 15 and 17-38,...
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SECRETS of the STEVE MERTZ LIBRARY (Part 1)
Steve Mertz posted this pic of his bookshelves on Facebook the other day (taken, I suspect by Paul Bishop, who paid him a recent visit). So, in the tradition of my 2015 post "Secret's of Bill Crider's...
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SECRETS of the STEVE MERTZ LIBRARY (Part 2)
Yesterday we took a closer look at the top row of this small portion of the Stephen Mertz Unpublic Library of Tucson, AZ. Today we're moving on to row Two. What wonders will we find? Read on . . .Way...
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