Vintage Pop Fictions

The League of Frightened Men was Rex Stout’s second Nero Wolfe mystery novel, published in 1935. And it has a few features that make it s...

Dennis Wheatley’s The Ka of Gifford Hillary , published in 1956, is one of the “black magic” novels for which he was most famous although ...

Mention French Foreign Legion adventure stories and most people will think of P. C. Wren but in fact the grand master of that particular g...

Winston Graham's 1961 novel Marnie is best know today as the source of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 movie of the same title. The movie was...

Psychic or occult detective stories enjoyed a considerable vogue towards the end of the 19th century and for the first quarter of the 20th...

Sir John Hawkwood and his famous White Company have inspired quite a few writers, including most famously Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But so p...

Twelve Women Detective Stories is an Oxford University Press paperback featuring twelve stories written between 1861 and 1950, all featu...