Vintage Pop Fictions

John Rhode’s The Claverton Mystery (published in the US as The Claverton Affair ) appeared in 1933. It was the fifteenth of the seventy-...

Although Eric Ambler’s Cause for Alarm appears as part of Pan’s Classic Crime series it’s really more spy thriller than crime thriller. ...

Death on the Nile is a 1937 Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie, and it is in fact one of her best-known books. There’s really...

Helen MacInnes (1907-1985) was a very popular writer of spy fiction during her lifetime and unlike many thriller writers of her era her...

Christopher Bush was an English writer of detective stories. I’ve seen at least three different birth dates given for him, ranging from 1...

Dr Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960) was a distinguished Scottish-born mathematician who wrote science fiction novels under the name John Tain...

Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971) enjoyed considerable success as a writer of detective novels during the 1920s under the name Anthony Ber...