Vintage Pop Fictions

The Spiked Lion was the thirteenth of the fifty-odd Anthony Bathurst mysteries written by Brian Flynn. It was published in 1933. For thos...

The Saint's Getaway was originally published in 1932 as Getaway , although two earlier versions of the story appeared in Thriller ma...

Murder in Mesopotamia , one of Agatha Christie’s more celebrated mysteries, was published in 1936. As I did with  Evil Under the Sun  last...

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...