Vintage Pop Fictions

Valentine Williams (1883–1946) was an English thriller writer who enjoyed some success in the interwar period. He is best known for his sp...

Christopher St. John Sprigg (1907-1937) was an English writer who produced seven detective novels. In the mid-1930s he became an ardent Ma...

My interest in Daphne du Maurier’s books was initially aroused by the fact that they provide the source material for three of my favourite...

The Case of the Buried Clock is a 1943 Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardner. Harley Raymand, recovering from a war wound, is stayi...

A for Andromeda was one of the most famous science fiction television series of all time, now tragically lost. The follow-up series The An...

Bushranger of the Skies , later reprinted as No Footprints in the Bush , is a 1940 Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery by Arthu...

The genesis of Graham Greene’s The Third Man is rather interesting. In 1948 The Fallen Idol , directed by Carol Reed and written by Graha...