Alistair MacLean's   The Guns of Navarone was an eight-part WW2 serial that first appeared in the September 22, 1956 issue of Saturday...

In 1955, Blood Alley was simultaneously published as a novel and released as a film by Warner Brothers. The premise is that a U.S. Merchant...

Murderer's Row , the fifth installment in Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series of spy-fiction , was published in 1962 by Fawcett Gol...

British resident Giles Denison awakens in an unfamiliar place with vague memories of his past. When he stumbles into the bathroom, he is sho...

The Brat , published in 1957 by Fawcett Gold Medal, was Gil Brewer's 12th career effort, a mid-era crime-noir that is misrepresented by...

After the success of The Name of the Game is Death (1962) and One Endless Hour (1969), crime-noir author Dan J. Marlowe found his heist h...

Colonel Corby spent years fighting in Korea and Vietnam before an injury ended his military career. After rehabbing at a local hospital, Co...

Gardner F. Fox (1911-1986) began writing for the comic book industry in 1937. Throughout his prolific literary career, Fox authored over 4...

Between 1953 and 1961, Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) authored his first five career novels and all were westerns . Leonard played his first ha...

Stark House Press continues to reprint the literary work of A.S. Fleischman . The talented Navy veteran, magician, and author began writing...

Matt Helm is starting to stir the place up. After dismissing the first two installments of this Donald Hamilton spy series, I knew I owed...

Frank Bonham (1914-1988) is best remembered as an author of young adult fiction and westerns from the pulp era into the advent of paperba...

Ian Fleming's mega-star James Bond influenced a number of spy fiction titles, including Assignment and Nick Carter: Killmaster . One ...

Crime-fiction author John D. MacDonald began the Travis McGee series with three novels, including  The Deep Blue Good-by , originally publ...

Albert Conroy was one of the cadre of pseudonyms employed by Philadelphia native Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996) to flood the market with his ...

Clifton Adams was a wine connoisseur that loved jazz music and Oklahoma history. He also wrote a bunch of violent, gritty novels about hero...

Jon Messmann proved to be a prolific and diverse author throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He created the wildly successful The Trailsman ser...

Between 1958 and 1961, Philadelphia native Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996) employed the pseudonym Nick Quarry to write a six-book series starr...

Jim Thompson (1906-1977) is a celebrated author of noir paperbacks from the 1940s through the 1950s. I've struggled with his writing sty...

Harry Whittington was a master of crime-noir, but wrote novels in many different genres like romance, sleaze, slave gothics and westerns ....