Mostly Old Books and Rust

The Captain Must Die by Robert Colby My rating: 5 of 5 stars A 1959 Fawcett Gold Medal revenge caper classic telling the s...

Apache Rising by Marvin H. Albert My rating: 5 of 5 stars A taut and violent short western that finds young Jess Remsberg,...

My friends Eric and Tom who run the terrific blog Paperback Warrior started a podcast a few months ago that I dig just as much as their blo...

An okay B-Western that doesn't compare very favorably with the Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy films. Grizzled prospector named Cimmaro...

Harry Whittington wrote a couple of movie tie-ins that I'm aware of - "Charro!" and "Temptations of Valerie". I c...

Mountain Girl by Cord Wainer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Mountain Girl, an inexplicable title, tells the story of hard-boiled ...

An out-of-print W. C. Tuttle book that I converted into ebook format from a scan. It's not a Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens nove...

The Legend of Roxy Doyle by J.R. Roberts My rating: 4 of 5 stars The first book in the Gunsmith Adult Western spin-off ser...

I came across a John D. MacDonald story that I had never seen before in a scan of the February 1958 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. It tu...

Murder Mistress by Robert Colby My rating: 5 of 5 stars A superb take on the heist theme telling the tale of Scott Daniels...