Rough Edges

As we all know, 2021 has been a rough year in many respects. At times, I’ve felt as if I were keeping busy just so I wouldn’t think about ho...

The first Norbert Davis story I ever read was “Don’t Give Your Right Name”, a Max Latin yarn included in the iconic anthology THE HARDBOILED...

When I wrote the first of these posts back in 2004, it never occurred to me that I'd still be writing them seventeen years later. I...

Yes, the serials are annoying and the bane of a collector's existence, but I love ARGOSY anyway. There was just so much fine fiction and...

A very nice Christmas-themed cover on this issue of RANGELAND ROMANCES, Popular Publications' answer to RANCH ROMANCES. By the Fifties, ...

A COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS PRAYER By S. Omar Barker (1894-1985)   I ain't much good at prayin', and You may not know me, Lord- I ain...

In the past I've read Christmas-themed books from the Edge , Longarm , and Trailsman series, and this year it's the Gunsmith's ...

Coming next month. I had a great time writing this one. With interesting characters and lots of all-out action, I think it's my favorite...

Both stories featured on the cover of this issue of DETECTIVE NOVELS are by Norman A. Daniels, a stand-alone novella under his own name and ...

This looks like a pretty good mid-Thirties issue of WESTERN TRAILS, with a cover by William F. Soare and entries in two long-running series,...