Vintage Pop Fictions

The period from the 1950s to the 1970s was a golden age of British thriller writing. There was of course Ian Fleming but most of the Brit...

Castle Skull , published in 1931, was the third of John Dickson Carr’s five Henri Bencolin mysteries. Carr connoisseurs generally regard t...

George F. Worts was a prolific contributor of adventure stories to both slick magazines and pulps. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and died i...

If you enjoy vintage crime fiction there's a pretty good chance you enjoy vintage crime movies as well and I've reviewed some pretty...

The Corpse in the Coppice was the ninth of R. A. J. Walling’s twenty-two Philip Tolefree mysteries. It was published in 1936 and the US ...

While Simon Templar (the Saint) might be the most famous fictional example of the criminal turned crime-fighter he had several illustriou...

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