Vintage Pop Fictions

pulp novels, trash fiction, detective stories, adventure tales, spy fiction, etc from the 19th century up to the 1970s

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Honey West - Girl on the Prowl

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Girl on the Prowl , published in 1959, was the fifth of G.G. Fickling’s Honey West private eye thrillers. G.G. Fickling was in fact a husban...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain


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During the 1960s Michael Crichton had written several thrillers under pseudonyms. The Andromeda Strain, which appeared in 1969, was his fir...
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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Modesty Blaise: The Iron God and The Wicked Gnomes

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Two more Modesty Blaise comic-strip adventures by Peter O’Donnell from 1973 and 1974, The Wicked Gnomes and The Iron God , reprinted by Tit...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Fantômas: A Royal Prisoner

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Published in 1911, A Royal Prisoner ( Un Roi Prisonnier ) was the fifth of the Fantômas novels. The brilliant arch-criminal Fantômas is one...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Bill S. Ballinger's The Longest Second

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The Longest Second is a 1957 crime novel by Bill S. Ballinger. Assigning it to a particular crime sub-genre is a bit tricky. It’s certainly...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Murray Leinster's The Time Tunnel

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Murray Leinster's The Time Tunnel is a 1966 TV tie-in novel based on the Irwin Allen television series of the same name that went to ai...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

The Million Missing Maidens (The Man from T.O.M.C.A.T. 2)

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The Million Missing Maidens is the second in Mallory T. Knight’s The Man from T.O.M.C.A.T. series of sexy spy thrillers. It was published as...
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