Vintage Pop Fictions

Victor Canning (1911-86) was a British thriller writer who enjoyed considerable success during the period from the 1940s to the 1960s onl...

The Loss of the Jane Vosper is one of the Inspector French mysteries written by Freeman Wills Crofts and was published in 1936. It’s one...

Day of the Guns was the first of Mickey Spillane’s four Tiger Mann espionage thrillers written between 1964 and 1966. Not surprising...

The Chinese Orange Mystery appeared in 1934. It was the eighth of the Ellery Queen mysteries written by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee ...

The Incredulity of Father Brown was the third of G.K. Chesterton’s collections of Father Brown detective stories, appearing in 1926. Li...

These were the vintage pop fiction novels that most impressed me in the past year, with links to my reviews. First off the bes...

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