Vintage Pop Fictions

Murder on the Bridge , published in 1930 (and also known as QED ), is one of Lynn Brock’s Colonel Gore mysteries. It’s a bit of a hybri...

Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel was published in 1905 and was, as the saying goes, a publishing phenomenon. So successful was it ...

The Case of the Sulky Girl , published in 1933, was the second of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason mysteries. Gardner was by no means a...

Tiger Standish Comes Back was the second of Sydney Horler’s Tiger Standish thrillers. It appeared in 1934. Today Horler is perhaps the m...

The Two Tickets Puzzle (sometimes known as The Two Ticket Puzzle ) is a 1930 detective novel by J. J. Connington. Connington is best kno...

Frank L. Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian who wrote crime and adventure fiction but gained his greatest fame with his Jimmie Dale stori...

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