WILDERNESS THRILLERS: NEW BOOKS BY C. J. BOX AND PAUL DOIRON
Dark Sky by C J Box (March 2021) Ever since reading Alistair MacLean’s classic Night Without End back in the early 1970s I have been a fan of thrillers which...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: RECENT BOOK HAUL OF FORGOTTEN SPY NOVELS
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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THROWBACK THURSDAY: THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD By Michael Koryta (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014)
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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TRASHY TUESDAY: MORE AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL PAPERBACKS FROM THE 1960S
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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TRASHY TUESDAY: JAPANESE HORROR CAMPS – THE JOHN SLATER POW NOVELS
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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TRASHY TUESDAY: GLASSES ON COVERS
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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