Vintage Pop Fictions

To say that John Dickson Carr’s The Devil in Velvet , which was first published in 1951, is an unconventional detective novel would be a ...

Yet more occult detective tales! I do seem to be a bit obsessed by this odd genre. The slim volume The Occult Files Of Francis Chard inc...

The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe was the thirteenth of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason mysteries, appearing in 1938, and it’s a part...

The Female of the Species was the fifth of the Bulldog Drummond novels produced by H. C. McNeile (under the pseudonym Sapper). It first ...

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was the fourth of the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Sayers has a huge re...

Goldfinger was the seventh of Ian Fleming’s James Bond spy thrillers. The popularity of the Bond books had grown steadily since the publ...

Fans of the Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels of Dorothy L. Sayers might be interested in my review of the extremely good 1973 BBC televisi...