Paperback Warrior: The State of the Blog 2018 was a huge year for Paperback Warrior’s growth. We published 288 original entries - mostly r...

“The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon” is a short Louis L’Amour novel (about 73 modern pages) that originally appeared in the October 1949 iss...

Gold Eagle originally had the idea for 'Track' as 'Hunter', which would have made more sense overall. At the time NBC had ...

The problem with Harry Whittington is that he wrote so many books that it’s hard to differentiate his crime fiction masterpieces from the ...

It's no secret that I really didn't care for the ninth installment of  Don Pendleton's vigilante series The Executioner .  Ve...

During his prolific career, Michael Avallone wrote around 38 novels and countless short stories featuring his private eye character, Ed No...

Leisure released the debut 'Buckskin' novel in 1984, the height of the adult western boom. The series would run for 42 entries a...

First published in 1954 by Lion Books, Sin Pit was the only known novel written by Paul Meskil. According to an introduction by academic ...

“Nighfall” is a 1947 crime novel by genre great David Goodis. The book has been reprinted and released by Stark House Press along with ...

In 1975, Berkeley Medallion Books released the third of four installments in The D.C. Man series by James P. Cody, a pseudonym used by fo...

Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) is considered a cornerstone of western fiction. During his prolific career he penned 100 novels and around 4...

Bruce Elliott is probably best remembered by fans of pulp fiction for writing a handful of unremarkable stories for 'The Shadow' m...

The 1962 Ace Double featured Tom West's (Fred East) “Dead Man's Double Cross” and Harry Whittington's “Wild Sky”. Whittington,...

In order to keep up with the demanding production schedule at Paperback Warrior, I sometimes turn to audiobooks as a means to fill my idle...

“This Man Dawson” was a short-lived television show that aired during 1959-1960. It lasted one season and produced 33 half-hour episodes. ...

There were only two books in the short-lived Tunnel Rats series by Stephen Mertz (writing as Cliff Banks), and that was a real shame becau...

Author William Fieldhouse utilized pseudonyms like Chuck Bainbridge and John Lansing for the action series' 'Hard Corps' and ...

Fredric Brown was an interesting figure in the world of pulp fiction because he had equivalent success in both the mystery science fiction...

Author Ralph Dennis began the 'Hardman' series in 1974 with "Atlanta Deathwatch". The book would kick-start a beloved 12...

In 1958, Fawcett Gold Medal released a new paperback original by noir fiction master Charles Williams called Man on the Run . Mysterious ...