Vintage Pop Fictions

Horse Under Water , published in 1963, was Len Deighton’s second novel and also the second of the four novels that are usually thought of ...

The Corpse with the Grimy Glove (that was the US title the original British title being M ore Than One Serpent )  was the thirteenth of R...

I’ve started a new cult TV blog .  It will be devoted to cult TV series from the 1950s up to the end of the 1970s (wi...

Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914) wrote under the name L. T. Meade, producing countless stories for girls. She also wrote in a v...

The Canary Murder Case was the second of S. S. Van Dine’s Philo Vance mysteries. It appeared in 1927 and was a huge bestseller, putting i...

The enormous success of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel The Exorcist triggered a boom in supernatural horror fiction. The film version ...

C. S. Forester (1899-1966) gained fame as the author of the Hornblower naval adventure novels. He wrote two crime novels, the first being ...