Vintage Pop Fictions

The Flying Death is one strange little book. Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958) was a famous American muckraking journalist in his day alth...

Eric Ambler’s 1962 thriller The Light of Day (also published under the title Topkapi ) is both typical and untypical of his work. It’s ty...

The Second World War is never explicitly mentioned in Agatha Christie’s One, Two, Buckle My Shoe but it casts a long shadow over the book...

Leigh Brackett’s 1949 novella Enchantress of Venus introduced her most famous series character, Eric John Stark. It’s a fairly typical sw...

Death by Request was the only detective novel to be written by husband-and-wife team Romilly and Katherine John. Romilly John was the son...

Robert E. Howard wrote a vast number of short stories but only a handful of novels, including Almuric which was serialised in Weird Tales...

The Case of the Howling Dog is a fairly early Perry Mason mystery, dating from 1934. By this time Erle Stanley Gardner already had the Pe...