crime noir

2 min read 2020-10-28 22:43:41

IDW Reviews: Dying is Easy HC

Dying is Easy HCPublisher: IDW PublishingStory: Joe HillArt: Martin SimmondsColor Assist: Dee CunniffeLetters: Shawn Lee With popular series like

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Click on image to see it full-size. . Crime noir is a sort of sub-genre that occasionally manifests itself in some really good films… and perhaps a

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Welcome to Tabletop Terrors! In this monthly series, we’ll help you recreate some of the terror, tension, and fun of scary stories by examining

2 min read 2020-04-21 17:00:00

After 13-years of writing stand-alone hardboiled and crime noir novels, MacDonald's love for nautical adventure and the Florida Gulf Coast would

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The fiction of Cleve Adams (1895-1949) first appeared in pulp magazines like Double Detective and Detective Fiction Weekly. Beginning in 1940, Adams

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Amber Dean (real name Amber Dean Getzin, 1902-1985) was a New York native that authored 17 mystery novels between 1944 and 1973. One of the author's

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Female authors are rather underrepresented at Paperback Warrior (nothing personal, ladies!), so we put our feelers out for book recommendations of

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Frederick Lorenz was the pseudonym used by Lorenz Heller (1911-????) for a handful of paperback crime novels released by Lion Books in the 1950s. The

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Although he authored more than 170 novels during his 40-year career, only a small fraction of Harry Whittington’s books are available today in any

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Author Kenneth Millar's most utilized pseudonym was Ross MacDonald, a name created to avoid confusion with his wife Margaret's literary career. As

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Borden Deal (1922-1985) was born in Mississippi and died in Florida. Between those two events, he attended University of Alabama and wrote 21 books

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At the very beginning of his career, Lawrence Block was barely making a living writing surprisingly readable paperbacks for sleaze paperback

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New Yorker Jay Bennett (1912-2009) primarily made a living writing scripts for radio serial adventures starring Bulldog Drummond and early television

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Maine native and US Army veteran Ovid Demaris (1919-1998) dedicated a majority of his literary work to non-fiction accounts of Mafia operations.

2 min read 2020-03-29 17:00:00

The literary works of crime-fiction master Gil Brewer have slowly become reprints by publishers like Hard Case Crime and Stark House Press. In 2006,