Vintage Pop Fictions

Roger Phillip Graham (1909-1966) had a moderately successful career as a writer, using various pseudonyms. He is regarded as one of the peop...

R. Austin Freeman’s The D’Arblay Mystery was published in 1926 and it’s another Dr Thorndyke mystery. Although written in 1926 it tells of ...

Pu Songling (1640-1715) was a Chinese Confucian scholar who amassed a huge collection of tales generally known as Strange Tales from a Chine...

Lawrence Block is a much-admired contemporary mystery writer but since I have virtually no interest in contemporary fiction I must confess t...

Bart Frame’s The Black Satin Jungle (also published as Indiscretions of a French Model) was published in 1953. It’s a sin and sensation po...

Leigh Brackett’s Last Call from Sector 9G is a science fiction novella first published in Planet Stories in 1955 ( Planet Stories really ...

Judas Country , published in 1975, was the last of Gavin Lyall’s aviation thrillers. Englishman Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) had established hims...