Vintage Pop Fictions

The Deadly Truth was the third of Helen McCloy’s mystery novels. It was first published in 1941. Helen McCloy (1904-1994) was an American...

The Shadow having proved to be a successful hero for pulp magazine publishers Street and Smith it didn’t take long for their rivals Popula...

In 1955 John Creasey (1908-73), possibly the most prolific writer in history (with around 600 novels to his credit), wrote Gideon’s Day ...

Of all the early masters of science fiction Murray Leinster (1896-1975) is perhaps the most underrated. He published his first science fic...

The Voice of the Corpse was published in 1948. It was Australian author Max Murray’s first detective novel. On the surface this seems l...

A Gift from Earth is one of Larry Niven’s very early Known Space novels. Larry Niven (born 1938) is considered to be a writer of hard SF ...

When E.R. Punshon’s Information Received was published in 1933 it was given a rave review by Dorothy L. Sayers. Sayers say the book as ex...