Elizabeth Jane Phillips, better known as her pseudonym Elizabeth Fenwick , authored three standard detective novels in the 1940s. In the fol...

Ed Lacy , real name Leonard S. Zinberg, experienced success with his diverse 1957 private-eye novel, Room to Swing . The book introduced the...

Jean Potts , who lived most of her life in New York City, began her writing career by contributing short stories to the glossy magazines of ...

Stark House Press put together four fantastic anthologies of magazine stories from Manhunt , and to celebrate the publisher’s 25th Annivers...

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

For a guy with over 90 novels to his name, British author of American thrillers James Hadley Chase (real name: Rene Raymond, 1906-1985) had...

The kidnapping-heist crime novel The Time of Terror by Lionel White (1905-1985) was first published as a hardcover in 1960 and later abrid...

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...

Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1959) was a journalist, music critic, playwright, lyricist and novelist. He saw his first novel published in 188...

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...

“The Sleeping City” was a novella that originally appeared in the Fall, 1952 issue of Thrilling Detective . It was authored by Mary Hauenste...

Marty Holland was born Mary Hauenstein in 1919. She began her writing career by authoring short stories for the pulps . Her debut full-lengt...

Philadelphia crime-noir author David Goodis died on January 7, 1967 at age 49 from brain trauma after being beaten in a robbery. That same ...

By 1955, author Edward S. Aarons had mostly switched his writing expertise to espionage thrillers starring his secret-agent star Sam Durell...

Stark House Press , and their imprint Black Gat Books, have done a fantastic job preserving Lorenz F. Heller's bibliography for modern ...

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

The legend of Jonathan Latimer’s 1941 novel The Fifth Grave is likely more famous than the book itself. Here are the facts: In 1940, Chicag...

Lorenz Heller (1910-1965) was an awesome crime-fiction author under a variety of different pseudonyms who was largely forgotten until Stark...

Nedra Tyre (1912-1990), who was born in Offerman, Georgia, received her B.A. from Atlanta's Emory University and her M.A. from Richmond ...

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