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First of all, thanks for reading my blog. I am especially thankful to those who took time to comment on my work, either by leaving a post on this blog, sending me an email, or sharing my articles on social media. You have really kept me motivated, and I am very grateful to be part of such… Continue reading On hold for a month or so

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the readers of this blog.   Wish you all many more happy years with friends, family and fiction of your choice.   Pulp Christmas Postcard courtesy EBay   If you want to get the postcard, go to http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331073498240  

Spy stories by Joseph Hone Story collections from Black Mask magazine Also on sale, ebooks by Ross Thomas and Donald Westlake

This story originally appeared in the May 1, 1935 issue of Adventure. Claude W. Bostock (1891-1970), the author, was a member of the Bostock family that ran the Bostock and Wombwell menagerie. It’s about shipping elephants trans-atlantic and the insurance problems arising from that. Mr. Reginald Smithers insured a shipment of elephants; then the radiograms… Continue reading Sea Kickup Elephants – fact article by Claude W. Bostock

Readers of this blog will enjoy the thriller Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household. It’s one of the best thrillers/adventure stories I have read, and the best in the pursuit thriller sub-genre. The book is based on an premise that many of us might have wondered about: What if someone assassinated Hitler before he came into his full… Continue reading Off-trail e-book recommendation: Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

Pulpfest 2013 just ended, and as usual, I did  could not attend (Plane tickets alone would have cost me 1300$ or more). Unable to be there, I was drowning my regrets in cheap drinks and costly books as usual. One of those books was Bohumil Hrabal‘s Too Loud a Solitude and on reading it I thought… Continue reading Biblio-maniacal thoughts from Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud a Solitude

I’ve updated the store with links to recent releases of interest. You might want to take a look.

See http://www.chillicothetimesbulletin.com/article/20130205/NEWS/130209826 for details. Looks interesting.

[This article was originally published in Popular Mechanics. It’s about the courage of the divers on the team that salvaged the S-51, a submarine that sank off the coast of Block Island in water a hundred and thirty five deep. Link after the break.] Download the article here.

[From a letter to the Putnam County Courier, here’s an interesting fact about Arthur S. Hoffman on his birthday.] Arthur S. Hoffman as Uncle Sam Ernest H. Baker War Poster in Camps   To the Editor:   Sir:   I should like, through the columns of your paper publicly to express my deep appreciation for… Continue reading Arthur S. Hoffman’s birthday today – and a new fact about him