Vintage Pop Fictions

The Ghost Now Standing on Platform One , edited by Richard Peyton, attempts to combine fact and fiction in offering us a survey of superna...

H. C. Bailey (1878-1961) was an extremely successful English crime writer during the golden age of the detective story. He created two mem...

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...