Excluding science fiction, author John D. MacDonald penned over 50 thrillers, including his long-running salvage-consultant series 'Tr...

Florida’s John D. MacDonald was best known for his popular 'Travis McGee' series, but he also wrote a slew of stand-alone crim...

It took seven years for author Dan J. Marlowe to release the sequel to his masterpiece, 1962's caper novel “The Name of the Game is De...

Donald Hamilton started his fiction writing career in the later 1940s coinciding with the introduction of paperback original novels into the...

One of the most harrowing aspects of the Vietnam War became the basis for an obscure paperback series. The Vietcong dug some incredibly ex...

Dan J. Marlowe was cursed with the wrong last name. Many in the genre, including myself, confused the author with Stephen Marlowe and Ch...

When African-American author Marc Olden began his fiction writing career in the early 1970s, he juggled two different action-adventure s...

'The Trailsman' was a very long-running series (398 novels!), employing multiple authors writing under the house name Jon Sharpe. ...

Gold Eagle released “Neutron Solstice” in March of 1987. The novel is the third installment in the long running post-apocalyptic series ...

There’s a real paradox about 'The Shadow', especially in the first few years of his pulp adventures. Even in these early novels - ...

Author James McKimmey’s debut novel, Perfect Victim , was released by Dell Books in 1957. The novel has been reprinted by Stark House as...

Quarry's Ex is an excellent entry in the Quarry series by Max Allan Collins . The series is about an anti-hero murder-for-hire hit m...

There are two types of Quarry novels: The first is when hitman Quarry is hired to kill someone and the second are the ones where Quarry t...

The first three books in the 'Wilderness' (David Robbins as David Thompson) series were consistently very good, and it became my f...

Bantam released the fifth 'Eagle Force' novel, “Ring of Fire”, in June, 1990. Author Dan Schmidt excavates some of the series myth...

Crime and intrigue in American hotels was evidently such an issue during the mid-20th century that the “hotel detective” became a mainstay...

It’s a little odd that there were so few series dealing with World War II. What could be a more natural setting for stories with action, h...

Author Ben Haas used over a dozen pseudonyms throughout his career, including John Benteen. It's this name behind the long-running ...

After the commercially successful 1966 “Man From Uncle” novel generated practically no money in his pocket, Harry Whittington went to work...

First off, don't even think about reading this 500+ page plantation “slavery gothic” drama unless you've read and recall the first...