Vintage Pop Fictions

I’m continuing to explore my new-found interest in honkaku, which is more or less the Japanese equivalent of the puzzle-plot murder mysterie...

The Silencers was published in 1962. It was the fourth of Donald Hamilton’s twenty-seven Matt Helm spy novels. If you’re only familiar with...

The Ginza Ghost is a collection of short stories by Keikichi Ōsaka (1912-1945), translated by Ho-Ling Wong and published by Locked Room Int...

Laurence M. Janifer’s Slave Planet was published in 1963. Laurence M. Janifer (1933-2002) was an American writer of science fiction, under ...

Stephen Marlowe’s Model for Murder was published in 1955. It’s more of a ”reluctant amateur detective” novel than a private eye novel alt...

E. Howard Hunt (1918-2007) is of course best known for his rôle in the Watergate scandal for which he served nearly three years in prison. H...

John Burke’s Moon Zero Two is a novelisation of the obscure but extremely interesting 1969 Hammer science fiction movie of the same name. T...