Vintage Pop Fictions

The Sussex Downs Murder was the third of John Bude’s mystery novels and appeared in 1936. John Bude was a pseudonym used by Ernest Elmor...

Englishman Shaun Lloyd McCarthy (1928-2001) was the author of many books including the sixteen Johnny Fedora spy novels written between 1...

The Crime Doctor is a 1914 collection of linked short stories by E.W. Hornung, a writer best known for his very successful stories of th...

The Branded Spy Murders was the fifth of F. Van Wyck Mason’s twenty-six Hugh North spy thrillers. The first of the Hugh North books appe...

Some recent reviews of vintage crime films from my movie blog. Johnny Angel (1945) is an interesting RKO film noir with a nautical theme ...

Erle Stanley Gardner’s sixteenth Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Baited Hook , was published in 1940. It’s a fine example of the quali...

Ira Levin (1929-2007) wrote only a handful of novels but that handful included some major bestsellers, the best-known being probably Rose...