Vintage Pop Fictions

I’ve never made any secret of my love of occult detective stories. They’re one of my favourite genres. Aleister Crowley’s Simon Iff storie...

Doc Savage first saw the light of day in the early 1930s and appeared in hundreds of books as well as various other media. Most appeared u...

Richard Sale had a successful Hollywood career as a screenwriter and to a lesser extent as a director. He wrote several crime novels and n...

Max Pemberton’s adventure novel The Iron Pirate was a major bestseller in the 1890s. It is a pirate tale, but an unconventional one. Si...

Headed for a Hearse , published in 1935, was the second of five crime novels featuring private detective William Crane written by Jonat...

Wordsworth’s The Shadow on the Blind and Other Stories actually comprises two short stories collections by two different authors - Louisa...

Henry Wade’s The Duke of York’s Steps was published in 1929 and it’s a fine example of the golden age detective tale. A wealthy banker,...