Vintage Pop Fictions

Murder Gone Minoan is the seventh of American writer Clyde B. Clason’s Theocritus L. Westborough mysteries. It was first published in 19...

Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) was an English writer who made his reputation with a series of thrillers between 1961 and the mid-70s, all featur...

The Hanging Woman , published in 1931, was the eleventh of the seventy-two Dr Priestley mysteries written by Major Cecil Street under the...

Alistair MacLean wrote Caravan to Vaccarès in 1970 when he was still pretty much at the peak of his powers. It’s a fine example of the w...

The Valley of Fear was the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialised in the Strand Magazine b...

Calamity Town marked a major change in direction for the Ellery Queen mysteries. Published in 1942 this was the first of the so-called W...

The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest (and most influential) examples of space opera. It launched the writing career of one of the...