Vintage Pop Fictions

These were my favourite reads of 2018. They’re listed by publication date, not in order of merit. Here’s the list, with links to my review...

President Fu Manchu was the eighth of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels. It appeared in 1936 and it marks an interesting departure for the se...

Erle Stanley Gardner’s 1939 Perry Mason mystery The Case of the Rolling Bone s adheres closely to the formula Gardner had well and truly e...

The Finding of Lot's Wife is a lost world adventure tale. The author was a certain Alfred Clark, of whom I know nothing whatsoever. I...

Ethel Lina White’s suspense novel Some Must Watch was published in 1933. In the 40s it was filmed as The Spiral Staircase and subsequent...

Rex Stout (1886-1975) wrote the first of his Nero Wolfe mysteries, Fer-de-Lance , in 1934. He would go on to wrote another 32 Nero Wolfe n...

In the mid-1930s Hugh Wiley (1884-1968) wrote twelve short stories featuring Chinese-American detective James Lee Wong. The stories were l...