As someone who grew up buying and reading mass-market-size paperbacks—and who still has myriad such works lining his shelves—I greet news th...

Army Girl , by “Whit Harrison,” aka Harry Whittington (Paperback Library, 1962). The Florida-born Whittington (1915-1989) was a prolific ...

Warning: Artistic inspiration drawn from book titles may vary. Left: Branded Woman , by “Wade Miller,” aka Robert Wade and H. Bill Mille...

Thank goodness C.J. Thomas reinvigorated his blog , The Stiletto Gumshoe , a few months ago, after letting it lie dormant for almost four ye...

Invisible Men , edited by Basil Davenport (Ballantine, 1960). With a title that immediately brings to mind H.G. Wells’ haunting science...

We Have Always Lived in the Castle , by Shirley Jackson (Popular Library, 1963). This mystery yarn was first published in hardcover in 19...

Crime novelist Max Allan Collins has unveiled the cover of Quarry’s Reunion , his 18th book starring the killer-for-hire known only as Quar...

Tight Squeeze , by William Fuller (Dell, 1960). This is the last of half a dozen novels to feature Brad Dolan , Bill Fuller’s “hard-boile...

Willa , by “Gilbert Terrell,” aka Evans B. Harrington (Dell, 1961). As book collector Tim Hewitt wrote on Facebook earlier this year, ...

The Smugglers , by Timothy Green (Pocket, 1970). Published in hardcover in 1969, The Smugglers is a non-fiction book about how “smuggli...

Warning: Artistic inspiration drawn from book titles may vary. Left: The Sailcloth Shroud , by Charles Williams (Dell, 1961); cover art...

(Above) Murder Is My Business , by Brett Halliday (Dell, 1963). I hadn’t expected to be writing again about Ohio-born artist and illustra...

I had known for a long while that Iowa crime novelist Max Allan Collins wanted to pen a sequel to Dashiell Hammett’s genre-defining 1930 pri...

“The world’s most superficial book reviews.” How can you not love a Web site that promotes its contents so unabashedly? Judge a Book by It...

(Above) The Case of the Duplicate Daughter , by Erle Stanley Gardner (Pocket, 1962). Cover illustration by Robert McGinnis. Art Scott, co...

The February Plan , by Robert L. Duncan (Ballantine, 1978). Duncan, who was born in Oklahoma and died there in 1999 at age 71, was a hi...

Warning: Artistic inspiration drawn from book titles may vary. Left: The Judas Hour , by Howard Hunt (Gold Medal, 1951); cover artist un...