Irish author Athwill William Baker used pseudonyms like Howard Baker, W. Howard Baker, W.A. Ballinger, John Long, Desmond Reid and Richard W...

Jon Messmann created and authored the long-running adult western series The Trailsman . He authored series titles like The Revenger and J...

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

Mistress to Murder , the fourth installment in the Steve Bentley series, was published in 1960 by Dell. The book's author, E. Howard Hu...

Between 1975 and 1980, Robert Colby (1916-2006) authored six stories starring a mercenary vigilante named Brock — all published in Alfred ...

Gil Brewer is a fixture of mid-20th century crime-fiction, and on this episode, Eric and Tom discuss his life and career. Tom tells listene...

During his literary career, Lionel White (1905-1985) was a master of the heist caper novel, with over 35 books to his name before his deat...

Charles Willeford (1919-1988) began his career authoring novels while serving in the U.S. Air Force. His most popular literary work starred...

I read and reviewed a 1963 suspense novel, The Make-Believe Man (1963) by Elizabeth Jane Phillips . The author wrote this novel, and many o...

We've covered the first two Penetrator novels, authored by Mark K. Roberts (odd numbered installments) and Chet Cunningham (even numb...

It is revealed in A Stab in the Dark (1981), Lawrence Block's fourth Matthew Scudder installment, that a psycho-killer wielding an ic...

Cleve Adams (1895-1949) was originally a pulpster that broke into writing in the 30s, along with contemporaries like Raymond Chandler and ...

Along with the likes of Gil Brewer , Talmage Powell , Charles Williams , and Lionel White , Day Keene is considered a staple of mid-20th ce...

Donald Bayne Hobart (1898-1970) began his career writing song lyrics and poems for romance magazines. His most popular literary work was the...

Street Hawk was an ABC television show that aired 14 total episodes in 1985. Many considered it to be Knight Rider on a motorcycle, but th...

On Episode 97, Eric and Tom collaborate for a comprehensive feature on Jon Messmann , the prolific author and creator of The Trailsman seri...

Inspired by the countless private-eye novels and shorts, original paperbacks (and some hardcovers) began appearing featuring heroic detectiv...

Stolen Tongues is a 2017 horror novel by California native Felix Blackwell. The novel was an outgrowth of a serialized story on the NoSleep...

The 1950s and 1960s publishing industry experienced a trend of authors and readers embracing swamp-noir, a concept that features the average...

In 1980, the top 15 list of all-time US fiction bestsellers included seven novels by Mickey Spillane . That's a true testament to the po...