Vintage Pop Fictions

The varied and prolific literary output of London-born A.E.W. Mason (1865-1948) included five detective novels featuring Inspector Hanaud...

James Mitchell was a very successful television writer, best known as the creator of the best TV spy series ever made, Callan . Mitchell ...

The Judas Window , written in 1938, is one of the more celebrated Carter Dickson mysteries featuring the delightful H.M. (Sir Henry Merri...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , published in 1974, is one of John le Carré’s most celebrated spy novels. It deals with the hunt for a mole in...

One Lonely Night was the fourth of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels. It was published in 1951. This time Mike is up against noth...

Ice Station Zebra is in my view one of the very best of Alistair MacLean’s thrillers, published at a time (1963) when he was at the peak...

In her recent review of T H White’s Darkness at Pemberley Kate Macdonald makes the following observation: Our frustration from the ch...