Vintage Pop Fictions

My best non-crime reads in 2014: Rudyard Kipling,  Kim  (1901) Herbert Asbury,  The Devil of Pei Ling  (1927) Edgar Wallace,  ...

I’ve discovered quite a few new vintage crime authors this year. Well obviously not new, but new to me. And some of them have tuned out to ...

John Bude’s first mystery, The Cornish Coast Murder , appeared in 1935 with The Lake District Murder following later the same year. The ...

Bear Island was the sixteenth novel by Alistair MacLean (1922-1987) and generally seems to be regarded as the last of his really top-not...

In addition to being the acknowledged master of the “locked-room” mystery story John Dickson Carr also wrote a number of historical detec...

The Trail of Fu Manchu was the seventh of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels, appearing in 1934. This is a rather different Fu Manchu - this ...

The Sea Mystery confronts Inspector French with a particularly perplexing case. A body has been found in a wooden chest in an estuary in...