There was at least three George Smith's writing fiction that we like in the mid 20th century. The G.H. Smith I'm referring to in thi...

In today's video, Eric unboxes the entire Operation Hang Ten series. This was a title created by Lyle Keynon Engel and published betwee...

A Matter of Adultery was first published by Newsstand Library as a mass market paperback in 1961. The cover was painted by artist Robert Bo...

Orrie Hitt (1916-1975) was an Upstate New York author of sleaze paperbacks who made a living writing a lot of books very quickly. The upsh...

The Other Woman by Charles Burgess was a Beacon Books title from 1960 that has found new life as a reprint from Black Gat Books . It’s a f...

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

According to his bio, William E. Vance (1911-1986) taught creative writing and worked for the Federal Aviation Administration in Utah. The a...

In the 1960s, Lawrence Block wrote many, many sleazy sex paperbacks under a variety of pseudonyms. Most were pretty mediocre, but some wer...

The Chip Harrison series by Lawrence Block is a very interesting anomaly in his career. The first two books are first-person adolescent ...

Author Simon Finch was born in Rio de Janeiro, where his father served in the Diplomatic Corps. Finch was educated abroad before attending u...

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...

Jon Messmann (1920-2004) created the popular Trailsman adult western series and the superior, but less successful, Canyon O’Grady series...

A Woman Possessed was a 1961 paperback by Harry Whittington , writing as Whit Harrison. The book is a crime noir paperback packaged as a sl...

Celebrated jazz musician Charles Boeckman (1920-2015) authored crime-fiction novels, westerns , and short stories for the pulps and digest...

British author Christopher Wood (1935-2015) is best known for his erotic novel and film series titled Confessions . James Bond fans may rec...

Do you remember the Don Pendleton series The Executioner ? Of course you do, don't be ridiculous. Even a perfect stranger completely al...

Many authors have shied away from their early work in the sleaze/soft-core paperback market, but science-fiction royalty Robert Silverberg ...

Like a lot of working authors of the paperback original era, Charles Runyon (1928-2015) supplemented his income as a mystery and science-fi...

Cutting Edge Books has performed a marvelous job preserving mid-20th century fiction. The publisher's new editions of classic titles by...

The book is called Motel Trap , with a blurb suggesting its contents are prostitutes, pimps, and sex  elements. But, the whole “motel” thin...