Vintage Pop Fictions

The Devil’s Mistress , a novel of witchcraft set against the background of Scotland in the 1650s, was published in 1915. Its author, John ...

Agatha Christie’s 1936 novel Cards on the Table provides us with an intriguing setup for a murder mystery. A certain Mr Shaitana has arra...

The Complete Cabalistic Cases of Semi Dual contains the first three adventures of occult detective Semi Dual, originally published in the...

The Castleford Conundrum , published in 1932 , was one of J. J. Connington’s detective novels featuring Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffi...

Charles Beadle’s The Land of Ophir was originally published as a three-part serial in Adventure magazine in 1922. The 2012 paperback edit...

The Mystery of 31 New Inn , published in 1912, was one of R. Austin Freeman’s early Dr Thorndyke mysteries. It serves as a rather excellen...

During the 1920s and 1930s the idea started to take hold that serious art should have one of two objectives. It should either make us feel b...