Vintage Pop Fictions

This year I’m going to do something slightly different. I’m not going to do a “best reads of 2017” list because if I did that it would be a ...

The Case of the Substitute Face was the twelfth of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason mysteries. It was written in 1938 and it’s a fine e...

Conquest Marches On , published in 1939, was the fourth of Berkeley Gray’s Norman Conquest thrillers. Gray was actually the incredibly pro...

Mystery at Lynden Sands , published in 1928, is one of J. J. Connington’s earlier mysteries featuring Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffiel...

Leigh Brackett’s sword-and-planet adventure The Sword of Rhiannon was published in book form in 1953. It had originally been serialised i...

John Rhode’s 1937 Dr Priestley mystery Death on the Board (published in the United States as Death Sits on the Board ) opens with a bang....

Alistair MacLean was well and truly on a roll when he wrote his eighth novel, The Golden Rendezvous , in 1962. It’s fairly typical of his ...