Books written by Robert Sampson

  • Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side

    Simon Trapp's career in Detective Story Magazine ran from 1921 through 1928 , with reprints in Best Detective Magazine appearing from 1933 through 1937. Roy Hinds , author of the series , was an experienced Street & Smith contributor ...

  • Yesterday's Faces: Strange Days

    ( In deference to the reader , who has enough burdens , we will not discuss the geography , social customs , religious ... Dr. George Murray is called to inspect Jason Croft , wealthy young eccentric , who has apparently fallen dead .

  • Yesterday's Faces: Violent Lives

    The spies and neer - do - wells are cut down . The hero and villain meet in a murderous hand - to - hand ... Hero ( to Solomon ) : John , you're a wonderful man , but I'm through with you . Why , you infernal scoundrel , up to the last ...

  • Yesterday's Faces: The Solvers

    The other , Garnett Bell : Detective , appeared , amused mildly , and vanished , leaving no issue . But then Bell never tore himself from the Holmes orbit , or really much wanted to . Garnett Bell was a detective created by Cecil Henry ...

  • John L. O'Sullivan and His Times

    The idea that the United States served as a model of democracy for the rest of the world is addressed by Robert H. Wiebe in SelfRule : A Cultural History of American Democracy ( Chicago : Univ . of Chicago Press , 1995 ) , 6 . 3.

  • Yesterday's Faces: Glory figures

    A Study of Series Characters in the Early Pulp Magazines Robert Sampson ... Doubleday , Doran & Co. , 1941 . Mott , Frank Luther . A History of American Magazines 1885-1905 , Vol . 4 . ... The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale .

  • Spider

    Spider

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 6 No. 3)May/June

    The Mystery Fancier, May/June 1982, Volume 6 Number 3, contains: Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part XIi, by Barry Van Tilburg; Pirates in Candyland, by Bob Sampson; and Some Thoughts on Peacock Feet, by E. F. Bleiler.

  • Yesterday's Faces: The Solvers

    That air of blithe independence glows from most of Edgar Wallace's professional detectives . ... An early example of this paragon appears in Wallace's 1918 series , " The Lapses of Larry Loman , " three related short stories in The ...

  • Yesterday's Faces: Dangerous Horizons

    In " Dangerous Horizons , " the fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series , Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps . Sparkling brightly among these ...

  • Yesterday's Faces: The solvers

    Yesterday's Faces: The solvers

  • Deadly Excitements: Shadows and Phantoms

    Once again two Senorita Scorpions appear . ... Riding with his gang is the flamboyant Senorita Scorpion . ... With " Sting of the Scorpion " ( Winter 1949 ) , however , Les Savage , Jr. , returns — and so does Elgera .

  • Yesterday's Faces: Dangerous horizons

    In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among...

  • The Duende History of The Shadow Magazine

    The Duende History of The Shadow Magazine