Vintage Pop Fictions

John T. McIntyre (1871-1951) was a Philadelphia-born  American writer who achieved considerable success only to fade into obscurity short...

The Black Abbot , which first saw the light of day in 1926, has absolutely everything an Edgar Wallace fan could wish for. There’s a ma...

The Secret of High Eldersham was the second of the Desmond Merrion mysteries written by Cecil John Charles Street under the Miles Burton...

The Talisman is the second of Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of the Crusaders . It was published in 1825. It deals with the adventures of a br...

Anthony Boucher was much better known as a critic but in the late 30s and early 40s he wrote a handful of very well-regarded detective no...

Roger Sherman Hoar (1887-1963) was a prominent Massachusetts politician who wrote a considerable amount of science fiction under the name...

The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla appeared in 1937, being the seventh of Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers mysteries. This being my...