Parallel to crime-fiction staples like  Mike Shayne and Shell Scott ,  Johnny Liddell was a no-nonsense private-eye operating under the ...

Author Steve Frazee (1909-1992) began selling his stories to the  western and adventure  pulps in the late 1940s. After a successful ru...

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

Shepard Rifkin was a New Yorker born in 1918 whose writing career began in 1956 as the author of several western paperbacks. He shifted ge...

American author  Norman Daniels (real name Norman Danberg, 1905-1995) is best known for re-introducing pulp hero  Black Bat in 1939. Dan...

Oklahoma native  Jim Thompson (1906-1977) began authoring his brand of violent, hardboiled crime-fiction in the late 1940s. His 1952 nove...

Paperback Warrior Podcast Episode 34 explores the violent and sexy world of Men’s Adventure Magazines and the upstart publishing company  re...

There is sparse information available today about the life of mid 20th Century author Walt Grove. I speculate that he probably served as a...

With  The Executioner 's overwhelming retail success, it was just a matter of time before publisher Gold Eagle would expand the ...

Terry Harknett is a British author that specialized in writing violent, sometimes humorous  western novels. By using a variety of pseudon...

Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) was born in Kansas and served in the U.S. Army during World War 2. After the war, he became a mystery writer w...

During the 1950s and 1960s, Men’s Adventure Magazines like Stag and For Men Only told salacious stories - often masquerading as non-fict...

Louis L'Amour  remains the most popular and mainstream western author with sales exceeding 300 million books. With over 100 original n...

Jonathan Craig (real name: Frank Smith) was an excellent crime fiction novelist of the 1950s and 1960s who really deserves to be remember...

Nick Carter: Killmaster series was one of the post popular and enduring titles in men’s adventure fiction with 261 installments between 1...

After  Dashiell Hammett successful Continental Op series of 1920s detective stories, the publishing world was ablaze with private-eye no...

Paperback Warrior has covered a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction paperbacks of the 1980s. Series installments in the Deathlands , Out of t...

Clair Huffaker (1926-1990) was a WW2 veteran, screenwriter and author. While writing in a number of literary genres, Huffaker's...

Before he became a successful author of horror fiction, John Farris wrote crime and mystery paperback novels, including a 1958 release tit...

On our newest podcast episode, Paperback Warrior presents a feature on prolific crime-fiction author Frank Kane's popular series of John...