Vintage Pop Fictions

California-born James O. Causey (1924-2003) had a brief but interesting literary career. He wrote for Weird Tales in the 40s, then wrote q...

E.P. Thorne’s thriller The Smile of Cheng Su dates from 1946. E.P. Thorne (1896-1988) is one of those writers who enjoy fairly successf...

Charles Forsyte was the pseudonym used by British diplomat Gordon Philo and his wife Vicky for a handful of mystery thrillers beginning wi...

Robert J. Hogan (1897–1963) was an American pulp writer, best known for his aviation adventure stories. He wrote the Red Falcon and Smoke ...

Reno Tramp is one of those salacious sensational American sex and sin pulp novels that were so popular in the 1950s (this one was publish...

Kitten with a Whip is a 1959 crime thriller by Wade Miller. The excellent 1964 film adaptation (with Ann-Margret) is probably better reme...

The Four False Weapons , punished in 1937, was the last of John Dickson Carr’s mysteries to features French detective Henri Bencolin. Th...