The Shark Run by Victor Canning (NEL, 1968) Sharks and terrors from the deep were popular staples of men’s adventure novels and magazines of the 1960s and 70s....
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Death Is Forever by Maxine O’Callaghan (Raven House, 1981) Although Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton are usually credited with being the...
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Assassin Take All, Larry Kent 709, by Don Haring (Cleveland, 1972) I recently came across a couple more Larry Kents to add to my collection. Both of them featured cover...
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Swastika Castle by John Slater (Horwitz, No. 29, 1966) The John Slater series (Horwitz Publications) of exploitation novels ran from 1962 to 1973. Most of them were...
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The Saint Steps In by Leslie Charteris (Pan, 1959) ‘The Saint’ novels by Leslie Charteris were a mainstay of the British crime fiction scene from Simon...
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Dragonfly by K. R. Dwyer (Sphere, 1979) Online conspiracy theorists have been quick to claim that American author Dean Koontz predicted the COVID-19 outbreak back in...
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