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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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...
Read MorePrey 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...
Read MoreBlackmailer 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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Black Slaver by Clint Rockman (NEL, 1972) Plantation pulp was a weird, popular sub-genre championed by many publishers in the 1970s (see my earlier post on Chane’s...
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Chain Of Infamy by George Beare As far as I can ascertain, very little is publicly known about George Beare, other than he was an Australian journalist who moved to...
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