Vintage Pop Fictions

The Honourable Schoolboy , which appeared in 1977, was the second installment of John le Carré’s Karla trilogy, recounting the epic strug...

The Corpse with the Dirty Face was the eighth of Englishman R.A.J. Walling’s Philip Tolefree mysteries. This 1936 novel was also publish...

For Your Eyes Only was Ian Fleming’s first volume of James Bond short stories. This 1959 collection includes five stories. The first...

Arthur W. Upfield (1890-1964) was an English-born Australian writer of detective fiction who enjoyed great international success with his...

Shooting Script was the fourth of Gavin Lyall’s very successful thrillers. It appeared in 1966.  Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) had been an...

I’m not by any means obsessed with locked room or impossible crime stories but it’s a sub-genre I do enjoy when it’s done well, and Hake ...

The Vivero Letter was the fifth of Desmond Bagley’s thrillers. It was published in 1968. This is only the second Bagley thriller I’ve re...