After the COVID imposed restrictions of the previous two years, it was very nice to get and about in 2022 and do some vintage paperback hunting in the wild, rather than...
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With Christmas and New Year on the near horizon, 2022 is nearly wrapped up, and my reading over the holiday period will largely be focused on the new releases for 2023...
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Red Sweater Gal Larry Kent #98 (Cleveland, 1961?) In the flood of faux American crime digests and paperbacks by Australian publishers, such as those in the Carter...
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Debuts are the lifeblood of crime fiction. Without new authors and new ideas, the genre would become stale and boring. Every year we see an influx of new authors, and...
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Western Monthly No. 25: The Gay Bandit Of The Border (1950) I recently acquired some copies of the Australian Western Monthly pulp, which reprinted American westerns in...
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March 2022 represented the fortieth anniversary of my career as a paid crime fiction and thriller reviewer. My first review, of Ted Allbeury’s The Secret...
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