Vintage Pop Fictions

Orrie Hitt (1916-75) was one of the many prolific writers of American sleaze fiction of the ’50 and ’60s. He wrote around 150 such books. ...

On the Spot is a 1931 Edgar Wallace crime thriller set in Chicago during the heady days of Prohibition. Tony Perelli is a Big Shot, one...

Henry Slesar’s novella The Secret of Marracott Deep was originally published in the July 1957 issue of the science fiction pulp magazine ...

Bad Company is the story of a young woman named Eileen Cooper. Whether Eileen is bad company or good company depends on what you want from...

The Agony Column , published in 1916, is an early novel by Earl Derr Biggers. A decade later Biggers would create Charlie Chan (who would ma...

John McPartland’s Big Red's Daughter is a 1953 pulp crime novel. Chicago-born John McPartland (1911-1958) had a reasonable successful ...

The Copenhagen Affair is an original novel by John Oram published in 1965 and based on the hit television spy series of the 1960s, The Ma...