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Quebec's romans en fascicules

The cheaply-printed crime novels shown here were printed in Montreal in the years during and after World War II. Many were published by Police-Journal Enrg., at 1130 Lagauchetière est, alongside romance novels and other forms of popular fiction. In his book   Le roman policier en Amérique française  Norbert Spehner describes the thousands of novels published in booklet form for Quebec readers in the years 1940-1960. Spehner 's book summarizes the factors which made the roman en fascicule popular: Quebec's industrialization and urbanization, its opening up to American popular culture, and the rarity of European or French publications because of World War II. On the covers of these publications, we see clear links to the American pulp magazine, and to traditions of illustration which reach back into French publishers' renderings of Fantomas and Arsène Lupin.