Wade Miller

Lost Classics of Noir: Kiss Her Goodbye by Wade Miller

By Brian Greene

April 11, 2014

Sometimes a good setting is all an ace novelist needs to pen a memorable story. Give an able scribe a backdrop that is the stuff of fertile literary ground and they can go to work in spinning a yarn that will please their faithful. One such setting, particularly around the middle of the 20th century…

More Than Pretty Pictures: Tag Lines in Classic Pulp Novels

By Eric Beetner

April 25, 2013

Let’s face it: a book cover is a seduction. No one knew this better than the pulp fiction publishers of the 1940s and ’50s, their covers all gussied up with lurid colors, barely clad women, big black guns, and promises of what was between the covers. But what’s a seduction without a good pickup line?…