Vintage Pop Fictions

English novelist Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was one of the most successful writers of the so-called “sensation novels” which were so popul...

Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was already enjoying reasonable success as a science fiction writer when in 1944 she decided to try her hand at...

Sydney Horler’s Tiger Standish , published in 1932, is a thriller very much in the mould of Sapper’s Bulldog Drummond novels. Tiger Standi...

Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947) was a distiguished British chemist who wrote very successful golden age detective stories under the pseu...

The argument over the title of best-ever series detective could keep us gainfully employed until Doomsday. But when it comes to the detect...

Ghost Stories of Henry James is a Wordsworth collection that includes James’ best-known ghostly tale, The Turn of the Screw , plus nine s...

J. S. Fletcher’s The Middle Temple Murder is an early example of the golden age detective story (it was published in 1919). Joseph Smit...