1938 1938 1936 1940 1930

1937 1938 1940 1940 1939

Here's a piece of illustrated fiction by pulp writer (and later Western and mystery author) Frank Gruber. At the time this story appe...

I've read this book a few times, and rapped about it  HERE . Can't say it's one of my favorites, but it's still fun. As...

If I'd know this book would be so enjoyable, I'd have read it thirty-some years ago. It's been sitting on my shelf at least ...

THE GOOD NEWS: Keith Alan Deutsch is editing a new collection of stories featuring Frank Gruber's Oliver Quade, "The Human Ency...

If your name is Randy Johnson, you probably have this book and know all this stuff. But for the rest of us - including me - it’s packed ...

This is the third and last book in my favorite Gruber series - the adventures of Simon Lash. Why is it my favorite? Because Lash is not o...

   1946 Mr. Ed Gorman featured this Johnny Fletcher adventure as his Forgotten Book of the week (that's HERE ), and as there are severa...

When I started reading this book I had a headache. But after a few breezy chapters, the headache was gone. Such is the power of easy readin...

Here’s another adventure of my favorite Gruber character, Simon Lash. The Buffalo Box (1942) is the second of three novels in the series...

This post winds up our Frank Gruber weekend extravanganza. On Friday we had a review of Brass Knuckles: The Oliver Quade Human Encylopedia ...

Here's the Gruber recipe for surefire mystery story sales, as presented in his memoir "The Life and Times of the Pulp Story."...