The 13th adventure starring CIA troubleshooter Sam Durell was Assignment-Lowlands from 1961. By this point in the series, author Edward S....

According to Mysteryfile.com, there isn't a lot of information about author Robert Ames. Apparently Ames was a pseudonym used by Charles...

John Tomerlin (1930-2014) was a screenwriter and novelist — mostly in the science-fiction genre — who authored a Fawcett Gold Medal heist ...

Earl Drake , the successful action hero created by Dan J. Marlowe (1917-1986) began his literary life as a violent crook in 1962. Over time...

Robert Martin (1908-1976) wrote a fair amount of crime and mystery paperbacks under his own name as well as the pseudonym Lee Roberts. Littl...

Jack Sheridan was a novelist of the early 1950s whose work has been rediscovered thanks to new editions from Cutting Edge Books . This inclu...

Stark House Press just released a reprint from Gil Brewer compiling his first two original novels — both from 1951 - Satan is a Woman and...

In 1964, Fawcett Gold Medal published Trouble-Texas Style , a crime-noir paperback that sported a Robert McGinnis cover and an unfamiliar au...

Kendell Foster Crossen (1910-1981) was a popular author that created and wrote the crime-fiction series Milo March and the pulp superhero ...

Edward S. Aarons struck gold in 1955 with the first of his successful espionage series starring CIA operative Sam Durell . This is consider...

Jonathan Craig (Real Name: Frank E. Smith, 1919-1984) was a Florida resident who socialized with Harry Whittington and Gil Brewer as he w...

Ledru S. Baker Jr. served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WW2 . In 1951, his short literary career began with the bestselling Fawcett Gold...

William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975) was a prolific writer of early 20th century fiction, including numerous science-fiction , adventure, ...

According to Spy Guys and Gals , Richard Telfair was a pseudonym used by Richard Jessup (1925-1982). Jessup authored westerns, pulp stories,...

Alistair MacLean's   The Guns of Navarone was an eight-part WW2 serial that first appeared in the September 22, 1956 issue of Saturday...

In 1955, Blood Alley was simultaneously published as a novel and released as a film by Warner Brothers. The premise is that a U.S. Merchant...

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

British resident Giles Denison awakens in an unfamiliar place with vague memories of his past. When he stumbles into the bathroom, he is sho...

The Brat , published in 1957 by Fawcett Gold Medal, was Gil Brewer's 12th career effort, a mid-era crime-noir that is misrepresented by...

After the success of The Name of the Game is Death (1962) and One Endless Hour (1969), crime-noir author Dan J. Marlowe found his heist h...