Vintage Pop Fictions

H. Rider Haggard’s She , published in 1887, is one of the bestselling novels of all time. It’s unquestionably one of the great adventure n...

Arthur B. Reeve Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936) was an American writer of detective fiction. He is best-known as the creator of Professor Cr...

Edgar Wallace’s The Feathered Serpent is a typical Wallace thriller, and as far as I’m concerned there’s nothing wrong that. It has murde...

Sexton Blake is sometimes seen as a Sherlock Holmes rip-off but in fact the similarities between the two fictional detectives were purely ...

E. W.  Hornung is best remembered today for his many tales of the great gentleman thief Raffles, and for being Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s br...

The Case of the Lame Canary is a relatively early Perry Mason mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner, published originally in 1937. It starts ...

Perishable Goods , published in 1928, was a sequel to Dornford Yates’ very successful 1927 thriller Blind Corner . Once again Richard Chan...