Vintage Pop Fictions

The Brighter Buccaneer by Leslie Charteris is a 1933 short story collection. It features what William Vivian Butler in his excellent 1973 b...

Joan Ellis’s Don’t Tell Anyone was published by Midwood Books in 1966. Later in life Julie Ellis (1919-2006) had a successful career as a w...

Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) was a big name in crime fiction in the late 20th century but since the crime fiction of that era doesn’t inte...

Harl Vincent was a pseudonym used by American engineer and pulp science fiction writer Harold Vincent Schoepflin (1893-1968). His short nove...

I’ve written at length in previous reviews about the huge differences in tone between Donald Hamilton’s Matt Helm spy novels and the Matt He...

Driscoll’s Diamonds , published in 1973, was the second of the Ian MacAlister adventure thrillers. Marvin Albert (1924-1996) was an American...

In a Lonely Place was one of the later and more highly praised of Dorothy B. Hughes’ crime novels. The 1950 film adaptation directed by Nic...