Way back in 2006 I read and warmly reviewed Patrick Quinlan’s entertaining debut crime novel Smoked. Although I enjoyed it, and Quinlan’s subsequent book...
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I have collected over recent weeks a number of interesting older covers from small and obscure publishers. I have also added to my collection two different Horwitz...
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The heist, particularly the idea of one last job before going straight, has long been a popular trope of crime novels. Probably reaching its peak during the hardboiled...
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The Ice by John Kåre Raake (Pushkin Vertigo) Night Without End was one of my favourite Alistair MacLean novels, and it instilled in me at a young age a liking for...
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Over the course of his long career, James Hadley Chase (pseudonym of Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond) wrote nearly ninety novels. They covered the spectrum of thriller...
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Popular Australian paperback publisher Horwitz usually focussed their war story output on salacious tales of military endeavours, often involving the violation of...
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