Vintage Pop Fictions

The great success of E. W. Hornung’s Raffles stories which first started to appear in 1898  and the popularity of translations of Mauri...

I read the first four stories in Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales several years ago. I have no idea why I then put the book aside, sinc...

John Rhode (Major Cecil John Charles Street) The Venner Crime , published in 1933, was one of John Rhode’s many detective novels featur...

Berkeley Gray’s Mr Mortimer Gets the Jitters , published in 1937, introduced British thriller fans to yet another new thriller hero, a yo...

In his excellent critical study of the thriller genres, The Durable Desperadoes , William Vivian Butler points out there are five quite d...

Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell Long (1885-1952) was a prolific English author who wrote under half a dozen pseudonyms. She is best reme...

Englishman John Creasey (1908-1973) may well be the most prolific author who has ever lived. He had at least 562 novels published during ...