Max Allan Collins’ Quarry series about a paid assassin is probably the best series (still) going today. The books blend action, mystery, s...

Frederic Dard (1921-2000) has been called the Harry Whittington of France because he authored approximately 300 crime-noir paperbacks durin...

Harry Whittington's second contemporary novel was 1951's Murder is my Mistress , published by Graphic as #41. One year later, Whitt...

Between 1953 and 1961, Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) authored his first five career novels and all were westerns . Leonard played his first ha...

Peggy Gaddis Dern (Erolie Pearl Gaddis, 1895-1966) used pseudonyms like Georgia Craig, Joan Sherman, Perry Lindsay, and Peggy Gaddis to auth...

While writing over 150 teleplays, Bill S. Ballinger (1912-1980) still had the opportunity to author nearly 30 novels. His crime-noir and de...

Stark House Press continues to reprint the original novels of New Jersey native Calvin Clements . During his life, Clements was in the Navy...

Lorenz Heller (1910-1965) wrote three books for a digest-size paperback house called Falcon Books using the pseudonym Laura Hale. Stark Hou...

Based on a small sample size, the Gothics that I've read from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s have teased a supernatural element. ...

According to Cutting Edge , author Stuart James grew up in rural Pennsylvania and at 15 went to work as a sports reporter for the Delaware V...

Thus far, I've enjoyed everything Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) has written. From westerns like Escape from Five Shadows (1956) and Last ...

  A recent Facebook posting in one of my book groups wondered if John M. Sitan was an alias of another writer, such as Jonathan Craig or Gi...

Sin in Their Blood is a 1952 hardboiled crime paperback by under-appreciated author Ed Lacy (real name: Leonard Zinberg, 1911-1968) that r...

Author William Edward Daniel Ross (1912-1995) specialized in gothic paperbacks of the 60s and 70s. Using a variety of pseudonyms, the Cana...

George Markstein (1926-1987) was a Canadian-born British journalist and television writer best known for his work scripting the TV show The ...

Los Angeles native Frank Bonham (1914-1988) specialized in westerns , young adult fiction, and television scripts. Between 1941 and 1952, B...

On the Paperback Warrior Podcast , and on this very blog, I've often reminisced about my early childhood and my father's love of 20t...

Stark House Press continues to reprint the literary work of A.S. Fleischman . The talented Navy veteran, magician, and author began writing...

There are over 30 gothic novels authored by Caroline Farr between the mid-1960s and 1970s. Most of these books were originally published in...

William Fuller worked on freighters and farms, served as a newspaper reporter, and was an infantryman during WWII . It was during the early...