Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era

PAPERBACK CONFIDENTIAL: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era by Brian Ritt

These are the authors who turned out the dark noirs and hardboiled thrillers, private detective puzzles and psychological suspense, police procedurals and backwood melodramas, stories of passion... and cold-blooded murder. 132 profiles of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback Era from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Here you will find information on the acknowledged masters...