Vintage Pop Fictions

Philip MacDonald’s 1931 crime novel Murder Gone Mad is an interesting early example of a sub-genre that would eventually come to dominate...

Finders Keepers , published in 1940, was one of Geoffrey Homes’ mystery novels featuring private detective Humphrey Campbell. Daniel Mai...

Max Rittenberg’s The Mind-Reader is yet another entry in the psychic detective sub-genre, and it emphasises once again just how surprisin...

B. Fletcher Robinson’s The Chronicles of Addington Peace is a fairly obscure but quite entertaining 1905 collection of detective stories. ...

Joseph E. Badger Jr’s The Lost City (or The Lost City of the Aztecs as the title appears in some editions) is an 1898 lost world tale. L...

Mignon Eberhart (1899-1996) had an extraordinarily long career as a crime writer. Her first mystery was published in 1929; she wrote her 5...

E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was in his time one of the most successful thriller writers in Britain. He wrote around 150 novels, incl...