Unearthing buried treasures from pulp literature’s yesteryear!
Perhaps only connoisseurs of vintage detection fiction or B-crime movie series know who Sapper was. In the beginning, he was Herman Cyril McNeile. In the British Army during World War I, he sent back from the front short stories of life in the trenches. Like Rudyard Kipling’s, some of them were humorous, some were not, but all were good enough to catch readers’ attention. A newspaper publisher even requested McNeile’s release from the Army so he could become a war correspondent. It didn’t happen.
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Unearthing buried treasures from pulp literature’s yesteryear!
We bookgasmics enjoy nothing more than rescuing a book from the discard bin of literary history and writing about it. There’s always the hope that it will make a new fan. But many of those we want to tell you about are no longer in print, or may be hard to find. Here’s the good news: There are gazillions of old books available online. Most of you probably know this already and may even have considered buying a digital e-book reader so you can read some of these titles more conveniently than off your monitor.
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