Vintage Pop Fictions

One of the most important ancestors of the classical detective story was the Victorian sensation novel. Wilkie Collins is perhaps the bes...

Dian of the Lost Land is a 1935 novel by Edison Marshall (1894-1967), an American writer whose adventure tales achieved considerable pop...

Double Cross Purposes  (published in 1937) was, alas, the last of Ronald Knox’s detective novels. And it’s a treat for fans of this under...

The Devil’s Cocktail , which appeared in 1928, was Alexander Wilson’s second novel of espionage. Wilson’s own bizarre and mysterious life...

Sweeney Todd, or the String of Pearls is one of the most famous of the notorious “penny dreadfuls” of the 19th century, lurid crime and ...

S.S. Murder is a 1933 mystery novel by Q. Patrick, an author with a complex and confusing series of identities. Q. Patrick was in fact a...

In 1951 The Day of the Triffids made John Wyndham (1903-1969) the most popular science fiction writer in Britain. In fact Wydnham’s over...