Vintage Pop Fictions

These were my favourite non-crime reads of 2015 (I’ll do a separate post for my favourite crime books of the year). Stanley J. Weyman,  ...

I’ve been rereading some of the Sherlock Holmes stories. I’ve been a fan of these tales for very many years and returning to them is like...

The Plague Court Murders , published in 1934, was the first of the Sir Henry Merrivale mysteries written by John Dickson Carr under the p...

Stanley J. Weyman (1855-1928) was an extremely popular writer of swashbuckling adventure novels. While other writers of such works from t...

The Kennel Murder Case was the sixth of S. S. Van Dine’s twelve Philo Vance mystery novels. It appeared in 1933. Opinions have always be...

Redhead was the second of John Creasey’s Department Z thrillers, appearing in 1933. It’s a roller-coaster ride of mayhem and action. Sub...

The Bigger They Come was the first of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Cool and Lam mysteries (published under the pseudonym A. A. Fair). It was p...