Originally published in 1950, "The Persian Cat" was the first thriller published by Gold Medal Books, one of the main paperback publishers of the 1950s. A minor espionage classic.
Two historical mysteries set in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the first being the story of a man whose past catches up with him when his bank robbing brother comes to town, and the second the story of an aspiri
Barry N. Malzberg's comic masterpiece back in print at last! Harry the Flat is dead and buried in the backstretch of Aqueduct Raceway. Our hero, for reasons many and varied, must dig him up, or suffer
A search for a missing wife and her sister turns up a much bigger mystery that leads back to the New York burlesque; and a found cache of jewels sparkles with murder when an ordinary couple decide not
Two novels that probe the political corruption of a big Midwestern city, where the important deals are always made behind closed doors, and the real power is wielded behind the throne. Along with The
Frank Kane is most famous as the creator of detective Johnny Liddell, whose escapades thrilled paperback readers throughout the 1950s and 60s. These two novels offer a different side of Mr. Kane, the
Two classic thrillers. Death's Sweet Song combines the deadly ingredients of a beautiful, conniving woman, a vulnerable safe, and a guy with lots of moral flexibility. Whom Gods Destroy is the story o
A young woman from the wrong side of the tracks discovers the power she has over men with her voluptuous figure, and uses it to get ahead. But at what price?
Booklist reviewed Ollerman’s first book as having “all the slam-bang anyone might want.” They called his second book, Truth Always Kills, “a moody novel with a sullen authority.” His latest is a detec
Irish Mick finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard place when he becomes the owner of a recording studio in which the son of a Mafia boss taken a sudden and lethal interest.
Originally published between 1952 and 1954, these three short thrillers "pack a knockout combination: sharp dialogue, pacey plots [and] superbly rounded characters," according to modern noir
Harry Whittington has been called the King of the Paperbacks due to his enormous output in the 1950s and 60s. He published mysteries, westerns, family sagas, romances, adult fiction, social dramas, mo
Two character driven crime novels from the early 1960s. “He wrote several outright masterpieces … that were on the level of, or even better than, the works of better-known crime writers of his era.”—J
Wilma has recently been released from a mental health clinic and no longer trusts the world around her....including the seeming dead body of her neighbor in the apartment below.
Two fast-paced, cinematic thrillers from the 1950s. Shanghai Flame is set in the newly-established Communist China and involves a newspaperman who is trying to rescue a former-lover who is not entirel
Lady of a Thousand Sorrows offers a fictionalized drama of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, being the story of a woman whose president/husband has been assassinated and is now being held in a secluded room
Bill Ballinger wrote incredibly clever mysteries that were very well received when they were originally published in the 1950s and 60s. His return to print is long overdue. As Litchfield says in his i
