Vintage Pop Fictions

Ellery Queen’s 1932 novel The Egyptian Cross Mystery is something of an oddity as far as golden age detective stories go, by virtue of i...

Insofar as he is remembered at all Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) is remembered mostly as a writer for film and television. He wrote many e...

T. Arthur Plummer (1883-1961) was an English writer of detective stories who is now about as thoroughly forgotten as it is possibl...

Published in 1927 and with a title like The Devil of Pei Ling you might expect this novel to be a Fu Manchu imitation. That is perhaps pa...

F. Marion Crawford’s The Witch of Prague , published in 1891, is more a strange occult love story mixed with reflections on philosophy a...

The Sherlock Homes stories weren’t the only mysteries written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Some of his other short fiction in this genre ...

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 ...