Vintage Pop Fictions

Web of Spies , published in 1966, is the eleventh of the Nick Carter-Killmaster spy novels. The series eventually ran to 261 novels. Nick Ca...

British diplomat and intelligence agent (and magician) Gordon Philo and his wife Vicky wrote a small number of very underrated mystery thril...

John N. Makris (1917-1975) was a former crime reporter and crime investigator who turned to writing for the pulps. Nightshade , published in...

The Black Cloud was the first novel by the eminent British astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle. The Black Cloud sold well when it appeared in 19...

The Red Pavilion , published in 1961, is one of Robert van Gulik’s wonderful Judge Dee mysteries. It follows the usual pattern, with Judge D...

Dr No , published in 1958, is the sixth of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. Dr No takes Bond back to Jamaica which had been the setting for...

Richard B. Sale’s The Isle of Troubled Night was published in the May 1938 issue of the pulp magazine Thrilling Mystery (and this issue ha...