Giant hands were often featured on crime-fiction covers during the height of the paperback boom. The example above comes from Ride the Gold ...

Published by Avon Books, 1951. Art by Barye Phillips. October marks 100 years since the original publication of Agatha Christie’s The Myst...

Above: Revenge , by Jack Ehrlich (Dell, 1958). Below right: The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper , by John D. MacDonald (Fawcett Gold Medal, ...

It was 58 years ago today, on January 10, 1961, that author Dashiell Hammett passed away as a result of lung cancer at New York City’s Le...

No Coffin for the Corpse , by Clayton Rawson (Dell, 1948). Cover illustration by Gerald Gregg. As I explain today in The Rap Sheet , I re...

Today marks the 130th anniversary of author Raymond Chandler’s birth in Chicago. There have been lots of posts written in association with...