Vintage Pop Fictions

Robert Silverberg is one of the revered grand masters of American science fiction but his science fiction output is dwarfed by the immense n...

The Baby Doll Murders was James O. Causey’s second novel. It was published in 1957.  Cliff Tierney works as a dealer in Vegas, or at least ...

The Liquidator , published in 1964, was the first of the Boysie Oakes spy thrillers. It was in fact the first work of fiction by Englishman ...

Earthlight was Arthur C. Clarke’s sixth science fiction novel. It was published in 1955 but had begun life as a novella four years earlier....

Jack Oleck’s 1959 novel Messalina belongs to a rather interesting sub-genre, a sub-genre we could perhaps call historical sleaze fiction. I...

Maddon’s Rock is a 1947 Hammond Innes thriller and it’s a textbook example of his approach to the writing of thrillers. Hammond Innes (1913...

Peter Cheyney (1896-1951) was an Englishman who had a very successful career writing American-style pulp thrillers, beginning in 1936. Cheyn...