Vintage Pop Fictions

F. Van Wyck Mason’s 1937 mystery The Castle Island Case belongs to a particularly fascinating sub-genre - the mystery novel with visual clu...

Killing Cousins is a 1961 novel by Fletcher Flora which fits at least vaguely into the noir pulp style of the time. Fletcher Flora (1914-19...

The Frightened Man is a 1952 Hooky Heffernan private eye novel by Laurence Meynell. Laurence Meynell (1899-1989) was a British writer and h...

The Alien Intelligence is a short novel by American science fiction writer Jack Williamson (1908-2006). The title suggests some kind of fir...

Alexander Wilson’s Wallace of the Secret Service was published in 1933. It’s a collection of short stories and it even includes a locked-ro...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch diplomat, orientalist scholar and writer whose first literary endeavour was his translation into En...

The Dark Angel is a collection of tales by Seabury Quinn that were published in Weird Tales in the early 1930s. It includes his short novel...