Vintage Pop Fictions

Robert J. Hogan (1897-1963) was a pulp writer best known for his many stories of G-8 and His Battle Aces , stories which combined espionag...

The Sweepstake Murders is a 1931 Sir Clinton Driffield mystery by J.J. Connington. Connington was a pseudonym of Scottish scientist Alfre...

Donald E. Keyhoe (1897-1988) was one of the most interesting of American pulp writers. He had a succession of careers, all of them fascina...

John Dickson Carr’s The Burning Court was published in 1937 and it starts off in a very gothic fashion. A man named Edward Stevens works ...

The 1965 novel Modesty Blaise has a rather interesting history. English writer Peter O’Donnell (1920-2010) created the Modesty Blaise com...

Tour de Force , published in 1955, is one of the later books of Christianna Brand who was herself one of the later writers of the golden a...

I’m still on my TV tie-in novel kick. I’ve now moved on to The Avengers (although that doesn’t mean I’m finished with The Man From U.N.C....