By: Joshua Glenn

E.E. “Doc” Smith’s pioneering space opera, TRIPLANETARY.

By: James Parker

“Ladies, come and get some,/before I’m turned into cosmic jetsam!”

By: Alix Lambert

IN THE HEAT OF NIGHT: How much has changed, in the past 50 years?

By: Joshua Glenn

From THANK YOU, MR. MOTO and THE DARK FRONTIER to WAR WITH THE NEWTS.

By: Joshua Glenn

Josephine Tey’s A SHILLING FOR CANDLES. Who killed movie star Christine Clay?

By: Joshua Glenn

Karel Čapek’s satirical sci-fi adventure WAR WITH THE NEWTS. A subjugated race rebels!

By: Joshua Glenn

Ethel Lina White’s THE WHEEL SPINS — the source for Hitchcock’s THE LADY VANISHES.

By: Joshua Glenn

H.P. Lovecraft’s ancient-astronauts yarn AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.

By: Joshua Glenn

Walter D. Edmonds’s DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK — NY settlers endure the American Revolution.

By: Joshua Glenn

Peter Cheyney’s THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS. The first Lemmy Caution novel!

By: Joshua Glenn

Eric Ambler’s THE DARK FRONTIER. A semi-sardonic, Ruritanian-type spy thriller.

By: Joshua Glenn

John P. Marquand’s THANK YOU, MR. MOTO. Can Moto stop a Beijing uprising?

By: Joshua Glenn

Graham Greene’s THIS GUN FOR HIRE — a fast-paced thriller.

By: Joshua Glenn

John Buchan’s THE ISLAND OF SHEEP — the final Richard Hannay adventure.

By: Joshua Glenn

From SWALLOWDALE to THE GLASS KEY to THE FACE IN THE ABYSS.