Vintage Pop Fictions

The Wrecking Crew was the second of Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm novels. Matt Helm is a US spy, he works for an ultra-secret intellige...

The Scarab Murder Case , published in 1929, was the fifth of S. S. Van Dine’s twelve Philo Vance mysteries. This one has, as the title sug...

John Buchan’s The Power-House precedes The Thirty-Nine Steps , the first of his Richard Hannay novels, by two years. It was serialised in...

A spacecraft lands on a distant planet, in search of answers to the mysterious disappearance of an earlier spacecraft and its crew.  At f...

I think this novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1896, holds up remarkably well, probably better than his other SF novels, and it’s still r...

Star, or Psi Cassiopea may not be the first science fiction novel (Cyrano de Bergerac’s Journey to the Moon, published in 1657, has the b...

Mr Denning Drives North is an unjustly forgotten classic of British crime fiction. Written by Alec Coppel in 1951, it can be seen as a va...