TRASHY TUESDAY: BAD DOCTORS!
Turn On The Heat by A A Fair (Pocket, 1951) Bad doctors are the theme of this week’s Trashy Tuesday covers. First up is Turn On The Heat by A. A. Fair (pseudonym...
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A DANGEROUS MAN by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster, $A29.99)
A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais There are few authors who can write high quality, action crime novels as well as Robert Crais. His books appear straight forward and...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: ARTISTICALLY ARRANGED CORPSES IN HIGH-HEELS!
Ladies In Ermine by Gavin Holt (Hodder, 1952) I was sorting through some books in my collection and came across these four British paperbacks from the 1950s featuring...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: SAME COVER, DIFFERENT BOOK!
A Graveyard To Let by Carter Dickson (WDL, 1960) Dig That Crazy Grave by Richard S. Prather (Five Star, 1972) It is not unknown for publishers to re-use covers, but it...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: PHANTOM BOOKS #1 – BLACKMAILER by George Axelrod (1953)
Blackmailer by George Axelrod (Phantom, No. 532, 1953) Between 1951 and 1961 the Sydney publishers Original Novels Foundation published over 300 titles in their Phantom...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: NOT SLEEPING, JUST DEAD by Charles Alverson (Playboy Press, 1980)
Not Sleeping, Just Dead by Charles Alverson I remember reading and enjoying many years ago Charles Alverson’s Goodey’s Last Stand (1976) about a San Francisco cop, Joe...
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