Vintage Pop Fictions

After reading JJ's rave review  over at The Invisible Event I simply had to to see The Last of Sheila. A fair-play murder mystery t...

In 1936 Popular Publications ceased publication of their Yellow Peril pulp The Mysterious Wu Fang . It was immediately replaced by a new Y...

Clifford Knight (1886-1963) was an American writer who wrote a substantial number of mysteries featuring amateur detective Professor Hunto...

There have been some discussions on some of the vintage crime blogs that I frequent (such as  The Invisible Event , Beneath the Stains of ...

The Black Camel, published in 1929, was the fifth of the six Charlie Chan mysteries written by Earl Derr Biggers. Movie star Shelah Fan...

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...