Vintage Pop Fictions

Ray Gaulden’s Rita is a 1959 noir novel with perhaps just a very slight hint of sleaze. Ray Gaulden (1914-1986) was a very obscure American...

The Corpse with the Sunburned Face , published in 1935, is one of the handful of detective novels written by Christopher St John Sprigg befo...

Lady private detective Honey West is best remembered today as the heroine of the cult 1965-66 TV series Honey West . Long before the TV seri...

Atoms and Evil is a collection of short stories by Robert Bloch. The stories were originally published in various pulps between 1948 and 19...

A Haven for the Damned was published by Fawcett in 1962. The author, Harry Whittington (1915-1989), was an American writer of pulp crime fi...

I’ve developed (as you may have noticed) a bit of an enthusiasm for hunting down the various tie-in novels that were produced to accompany t...

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...