Book cover image of The Face of Evil by John McPartland

Lowestoft Chronicle Editor reviews John McPartland’s Novel The Face of Evil for the Lancashire Post

“A rugged Chicago fixer wrestles with his moral compass as he attempts to tarnish the reputation of a local attorney in The Face of Evil, a gritty 1950s pulp fiction tale, steeped in extortion, corruption, and counter-blackmail.

Originally published as a Gold Medal Books paperback original in 1954, John McPartland’s hard-hitting standalone novel of redemption has resurfaced this month as part of Stark House’s Black Gat mass market editions, having been long out of print.”

Lowestoft Chronicle Editor reviews John McPartland’s The Face of Evil for the Lancashire Post.

Bruno Fischer Twofer

Earlier this month, Stark House Press reissued two excellent novels by bestselling author Bruno Fischer (1908 – 1992). Fischer was an incredibly prolific writer of genre fiction during the Forties and Fifties when pulp magazines thrived.
This latest twofer includes the novels Fools Walk In, published in 1951, and So Wicked, My Love, from 1954. The essay “Fischer’s Foolish Teacher and the Wicked Redhead,” by the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle, introduces the collection.

William Ard’s Timothy Dane Series

A recent collection from Stark House Press, published in December 2022, features a couple of highly absorbing 1950s hardboiled mysteries by prolific novelist William Ard. The two adventures in this volume include Cry Scandal, from 1956, and The Root of His Evil, published in 1957 and reprinted as Deadly Beloved the following year. It also contains “Timothy Dane: A Hardboiled Combination of Toughness, Compassion, And Quiet Humor,” an essay by Nicholas Litchfield, the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle, in which he discusses the history of the Timothy Dane series.