Vintage Pop Fictions

The Global Globules Affair , written by Simon Latter and published in 1967, was one of five tie-in novels associated with the short-lived ...

Finding a book by a very obscure crime writer is always satisfying and I think Frank King certainly qualifies as obscure. Frank King (1892...

Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946) was an American pulp writer in the mould of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In fact he is sometimes dismissed as a m...

The Case of the Empty Tin is a 1941 Perry Mason mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner. The tin referred to in the title is a tin of preserves...

Mr Midshipman Hornblower was the sixth of C.S. Forester’s Hornblower novels to be published. It appeared in 1950. When The Happy Return ...

The Mad Hatter Mystery , written in 1933, was the second of John Dickson Carr’s Dr Gideon Fell mysteries. It gives Carr the opportunity to...

James P. Hogan (1941-2010) was an English science fiction writer. Inherit the Stars , published in 1977, was his first novel. He later wro...