
He Didn’t Say That, I Did – Noir Goddess: Ida Lupino by Kate Laity

I’ve heard from doctors that they can’t watch hospital series like ER and Casualty because of the medical inauthenticity of some scenes. Policeman surely say the same thing about the CSI franchise (okay EVERYONE says the same thing about CSI Miami). Dinner-ladies probably thought the same thing about Victoria Wood’s classic comedy series dinnerladies, for all I know.
By Paul D Brazill
One of British television’s great creations, George Bulman first appeared on the small screen in 1976, in Granada Television’s hard edged crime series, The XYY Man, based on the books by Kenneth Royce. The XYY Man in question was a cat burglar called Spider Scott who was trying to go straight but regularly ended up getting caught in the MI5’s grubby web.
Continue reading I Didn’t Say That, Did I? Bulman the Bulldog.
The seventies was a time when music and film were doing some pretty groundbreaking and experimental stuff and, in the UK at least, so was TV.
Continue reading I Didn’t Say That, Did I?: Gangsters by Paul Brazill
Billy Karlsson is a disgruntled hospital porter; an urban Raskolinikov; an existentialist powder keg waiting to explode. An angry young man who has hatched a plan to blow up a hospital in order to vent his revenge on the world. But there are one or two obsticles in his way, the biggest being that he isn’t real. Karlsson is, in fact, a charcter in a long-shelved, unfinished, black novel by writer Declan Burke.
Continue reading I Didn’t Say That, Did I? Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke
By Paul D Brazill.
Fancy a drink? Maybe a snifter or two of Bite Sized Horror, the lethal literary cocktail concocted by Johnny Mains, the man behind the resurrection of The Pan Book Of Horror Stories?
Take a look at these intoxicating ingredients:
Continue reading I Didn’t Say That, Did I? – Bite Sized Horror edited by Johnny Mains
By Paul D Brazill
This what his bio says:
‘Josh Stallings is your average ex-criminal, ex-taxi driver, ex-club bouncer, film making, script writing, movie Continue reading I Didn’t Say That, Did I ?: Josh Stallings Goes Up To Eleven! He really, really does!
It’s the crime writing awards season, it seems. So here’s a quick mention of some that are relevant to Pulp Metal Magazine.
Continue reading I Didn’t Say That, Did I?: Oscar, she’s breaking up!
By Paul D Brazill
Truth Lies Bleeding by Tony Black.
The protagonist of Tony Black’s previous four novels is Gus Dury-a boozy journalist turned private eye. Dury is an antisocial, cantankerous, stroppy, trouble maker who lives on the cusp of catastrophe.
Continue reading I Didn’t Say That, Did I? : The Big Bamboozler Recommends