Vintage Pop Fictions

BUtterfield 8 was John O’Hara’s second novel, appearing in 1935. It was an immediate bestseller. John O’Hara (1905-1970) is now almost enti...

Night Walker is an early (1954) spy thriller by Donald Hamilton. At this time he was a moderately successful writer of paperback originals ...

H. Rider Haggard’s novel The People of the Mist was published in 1894 by which time he was just about the most popular writer in Britain. H...

The Outfit , published in 1963, is the third of Donald E. Westlake’s Parker novels written under the pseudonym Richard Stark. I’m not going ...

Fritz Leiber’s You're All Alone has a fascinating history. It was written between 1943 and 1947 as a 75,000 word novel which was never ...

Victor Canning (1911-1986) was a very popular English thriller writer who had a 50-year career. His thriller The House of the Seven Flies w...

John Charles Beecham’s novel The Argus Pheasant was serialised in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly in 1917. I’m afraid I can’t tell you ...