The 1950s and 1960s publishing industry experienced a trend of authors and readers embracing swamp-noir, a concept that features the average...

Swamp noir was a popular American sub-genre of the 1950s and 1960s born from the idea that the rural backwoods was teeming with sexy, dupl...

Between 1950 and 1969, Louisiana native and WW2 veteran  John Burton Thompson (1911-1994) authored and sold around 75 books. His paperbac...