Vintage Pop Fictions

The Man Who Found Zero , edited by Gene Christie and issued by Black Dog Books, is an anthology of early science fiction stories original...

The writing of Sherlock Holmes pastiches seems to have an extraordinary appeal to writers both good and bad, professional and amateur. No...

John Wyndham (1903-1969) had been writing professionally since 1925 and had a couple of science fiction novels published in the 1930s (in...

Hawley Smart’s The Great Tontine , first published in 1880, is an early crime/mystery novel.  It’s one of four short novels or novellas i...

Charles B. Stilson’s lost world tale Polaris - of the Snows was originally published in three installments in All-Story Weekly in Decem...

The Long Divorce , published in 1952, was the next-to-last of Edmund Crispin’s detective novels featuring Oxford don Gervase Fen. Composer ...

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