Vintage Pop Fictions

Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) is generally considered to be the best of the Victorian writers of detective fiction with the single exceptio...

The Baron Returns was the second of forty-seven novels in the Baron series written by the unbelievably prolific John Creasey (1908-1973)...

The Code of the Woosters , which appeared in 1938, was the third of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels. It continues the saga of...

Head of a Traveller , published in 1949, was the ninth of Nicholas Blake’s Nigel Strangeways mysteries. It’s a good example of the streng...

Some posts from my Cult TV blog dealing with TV adaptations of pop fiction classics. Honey West (1965-66), based on the Honey West priv...

When we think about the pioneers of science fiction E. M. Forster is not exactly the first name that springs to mind. He wrote just one s...

Miss Dynamite was one of the early Norman Conquest thrillers by Berkeley Gray, appearing in 1939. The last of the more than fifty Norm...