Desmond Bagley (1923-1983) was one of the first high-adventure authors to join Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean as the stars of the gen...

On Episode 88 of the Paperback Warrior podcast, Tom and Eric have a heart to heart conversation about the future of the podcast. We also re-...

Like Mink, Like Murder was a 1957 Harry Whittington novel that only received a French-translated printing (as T’as Des Visions! ) after fa...

Richard Stark was the popular pseudonym of Donald Westlake, and his Parker heist-adventures may be the best series of the genre. The secon...

Lionel White was a master storyteller who specialized in heist crime-noir. Several of his novels have been made into movies starring the l...

Donald Westlake had been writing professionally for several years when his first book as Richard Stark debuted in 1962. The Hunter (later ...

As a key contributor during Fawcett Gold Medal's paperback gold rush, the 1950s and early 1960s proved to be a fruitful time for Gil B...

Paperback Warrior Podcast Episode 55 delves into the world of heist fiction with a discussion of Lionel White. Also discussed: Annoyin...

We read so many vintage paperbacks by authors with dozens - or even hundreds - of titles that it’s easy to forget that some guys only had ...

Beginning in 1949, Day Keene (real name Gunard Hjertstedt) wrote over 50 novels. Just four years before his 1969 death, his heist novel C...

Lionel White  was a successful crime-noir writer and journalist. From 1952 through 1978, the New York City native authored 36 novels, some...

The Empty Trap , published by  Fawcett Gold Medal in 1957, is a shorter, stand-alone crime-fiction novel by John D. MacDonald . It's ...

Following a prosperous writing career in the pulp magazines, Bruno Fischer became a crime-fiction success story. His novel House of Flesh ...

By the late 1960s, successful crime-noir novelist  Gil Brewer was battling many personal demons. His bouts with alcoholism and severe dep...

By the time 1967 rolled around, Donald Westlake had really found his groove with the novels he wrote under the name  Richard Stark starr...

On Paperback Warrior Podcast Episode 25, the guys take a deep dive into the world of Nick Carter: Killmaster. Tom introduces listeners to Ja...

After his successful 1951 debut, Hill Girl , Charles Williams (1909-1975) went on to become one of the most respected crime-noir novelist...

Lionel White (1905-1985) was a crime fiction writer with a specialty in heist novels. However, his work never achieved the commercial succ...

It appears that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bantam Books launched their “Bantam War Book” line of military-fiction paperbacks. In m...

From pseudonyms like E.J. Gorman, Daniel Ransom and Robert David Chase, Edward Gorman's body of literary work is rather diverse. From ...