Danger Circuit by David Bower (Horwitz, 1963) Racing car dramas never reached the high levels of popularity in Australia that novels about hot rods and motorcycle gangs...
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Rough Justice by Matt Hilton (Severn House) Matt Hilton’s The Girl On Shattered Rock was one of my favourite pieces of escapist reading in...
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Sky-jacked by Stanley Morgan (Star, 1976) This cover for Stanley Morgan’s Sky-jacked is arguably the worst cover I have ever seen. Cheaply put together and...
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The Wench Is Wicked by Carter Brown, Horwitz, 1955 I always liked the use of alliteration in the early Carter Brown titles, especially when combined with the various...
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Stalking Point by Duncan Kyle (Collins, 1981) The massive success of Jack Higgins’ The Eagle Has Landed in 1975 spawned a wave of similar Second World War...
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Top Of The Heap (Dell, 1953) I always preferred the Lam and Cool crime novels, written under the A. A. Fair pseudonym, to Erle Stanley Gardner’s more popular...
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