Famed frontier storyteller Louis L'Amour  had a successful series of westerns starring various members of the Sackett family. While ...

Beginning in 1955, French author Maurice Gabriel Brault (1912-1984) began writing espionage novels under the pseudonym M.G. Braun starring...

The fiction of Cleve Adams (1895-1949) first appeared in pulp magazines like Double Detective and Detective Fiction Weekly . Beginning in...

Robert B. Parker authored a whopping 40 installments of his Spenser series of private-eye novels. The series was adapted for television i...

Amber Dean (real name Amber Dean Getzin, 1902-1985) was a New York native that authored 17 mystery novels between 1944 and 1973. One of th...

Before his untimely death at the age of 38 in 1960, William Ard was on a roll writing popular mystery fiction under his own name as well a...

Before his popular Earl Drake series of heist adventures, Dan J. Marlowe authored a five-book series of hotel detective novels. Beginning...

Female authors are rather underrepresented at Paperback Warrior (nothing personal, ladies!), so we put our feelers out for book recommenda...

Frederick Lorenz was the pseudonym used by Lorenz Heller (1911-????) for a handful of paperback crime novels released by Lion Books in the...

On Paperback Warrior Podcast Episode 39, we take a deep-dive into the crime fiction work of Wade Miller, including a review of “Kitten with ...

Before he was a mainstay on the bestseller list, Great Britain’s Ken Follett began his career as a novelist with a trilogy of books releas...

Although he authored more than 170 novels during his 40-year career, only a small fraction of Harry Whittington’s books are available toda...

John Creasey (1908-1973) authored hundreds of crime novels over a literary career that deployed nearly 30 pseudonyms. One of the British a...

Author Kenneth Millar's most utilized pseudonym was Ross MacDonald, a name created to avoid confusion with his wife Margaret's l...

Publisher Street and Smith used their own pulp heroes Doc Savage and The Shadow as the prototype for their series of pulp adventures s...

Borden Deal (1922-1985) was born in Mississippi and died in Florida. Between those two events, he attended University of Alabama and wrote...

Jan Stacy ( The Last Ranger ) and Ryder Syvertsen ( C.A.D.S. ) originally met in the 1960s at Washington Square Park in New York City. Cau...

Beginning in 1986, Popular Library published a 10-book series of men's action-adventure novels titled The Last Ranger . It catered to ...