TRASHY TUESDAY: Shalako by Louis L’Amour
Shalako by Louis L’Amour (Corgi, 1971) Shalako is one of my favourite Louis L’Amour westerns. Sean Connery is one of my all time favourite actors....
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Retrieval by Colin Dunne (1984)
Retrieval by Colin Dunne (Hamlyn, 1985) Colin Dunne wrote four novels in the 1980s which sat comfortably in that literary space between spy novel and tough guy...
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TRASHY TUESDAY – JOHN GARDNER’S BOYSIE OAKES: Founder Member (1973, Corgi); The Airline Pirates (Coronet, 1972)
Founder Member by John Gardner (Corgi, 1973) The Airline Pirates by John Gardner (Coronet, 1972) Two early seventies covers from John Gardner’s semi-comic series...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: Prey by C. Terry Cline, JR. (1985)
Prey by C. Terry Cline, JR (Signet, 1986) Despite the cover, which looks like one of those Gothic horror novels of the 1970/80s involving possessed children, Prey is...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: 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: Black Slaver by Clint Rockman (New English Library, 1972)
Black Slaver by Clint Rockman Plantation pulp was a weird, popular sub-genre championed by many publishers in the 1970s (see my earlier post on Chane’s Vengeance by...
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