Vintage Pop Fictions

Charlie Chan Carries On was the fifth Charlie Chan novel by Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933). It was published in 1930. An elderly America...

Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana was published in 1958, providing another example of Greene’s ability to set his stories in places that ...

The Singapore Exile Murders was the fourteenth of F. Van Wyck Mason’s long-running and very successful series of spy thrillers featuring ...

Over on my Cult TV Lounge blog I’ve posted some remarks on a further three episodes of the truly excellent 1975-76 Ellery Queen televisi...

The Division Bell Mystery , published in 1932, was the only detective novel written by British Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson. It’s a locked-ro...

Operator #5 (later renamed Secret Service Operator #5) was a pulp magazine of which 48 issues were published from 1934 to 1939. Initially ...

Edgar Wallace’s The Daffodil Mystery was published in 1920. While Wallace was best known for his thrillers he wrote straight murder myster...