Vintage Pop Fictions

Published in 1953, Casino Royale was the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. It immediately establishes the formula that was to m...

Guy Endore’s 1934 novel The Werewolf of Paris is perhaps best known as the basis for the rather delicious 1961 Hammer movie The Curse of th...

Someone recently recommended Clayton Rawson’s mysteries featuring the magician detective The Great Merlini. It turned out to be a great reco...

Mention hardboiled crime fiction and most people with think of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain and their classic noir n...

Paul Féval was a frighteningly prolific French author of roman-feuilletons, novels published in serial form which enjoyed enormous popularit...

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, was one of the big guns of Victorian literature. His books were bestsellers and ...

Brett Halliday’s 1945 novel Murder Is My Business is representative of the many hardboiled crime novels of the 30s, 40s and 50s that are no...