Operation: MissSat by J. E. Macdonnell, (Horwitz, 1987) In a recent round of bookstores and book fairs I uncovered some long forgotten spy novels from the 1960s and...
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Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) With the cinematic release of Those Who Wish Me Dead being very imminent, I thought that I would...
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A Pair of Hands by J. E. Macdonnell (Horwitz, MS 1,1960, 1962) Following my recent post on Australian paperback medical adventures and romances of the 1960s...
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The Horror Camp by John Slater (Horwitz #1, 1961, 1965) World War II featured prominently in popular fiction well into the 1960s and 70s. In Australia there emerged in...
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Florida Straits by Laurence Shames (Pan, 1994) George Easter over at his Deadly Pleasures site recently did a good article on the use of glasses and masks on the covers...
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Flying Doctor Urgent by Karen Miller (Horwitz, 1963) Medical adventures and medical romances were a popular sub-genre of early 1960s Australian paperback publishing,...
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