Scott D. Parker: Writer

When I reviewed THE PULP JUNGLE by Frank Gruber and how modern writers could learn from one of the most prolific authors of the pulp era. ...

THE BLACK FALCON is not only the fourth Shadow novel I’ve read in 2018 but my fourth one overall. And, to date, it might be my favorite fo...

In the third Shadow novel I’ve read (actually heard; thanks Audible!), THE ROMANOFF JEWELS begins in the apartment full of wealthy men. Au...

Eighty-five years ago today, Doc Savage landed on magazine shelves for the first time and, one might argue, helped change popular cultur...

Hot on the heels of my first Shadow novel, PARTNERS IN PERIL , I have now read my second, THE SHADOW UNMASKS. And I loved it just as much....

Well, it took a while, but I finally read my first Shadow novel.* I think like most of us, I’ve known about The Shadow for a long time. ...

A little under a month ago, I discovered Walt Slade, El Halcon, the Texas Ranger extraordinaire as chronicled by prolific author Bradford ...

I first made the acquaintance with Walt Slade a couple of weeks ago on my vacation up to East Texas. Then, it was a novel I picked out at ...

On a recent trip to East Texas, I stopped in Jefferson, Texas, and scoured a few antique stores. I found a motherlode of old paperback wes...

Sometimes, a western features a guy walking, riding, talking, and thinking. But little in the way of shooting. THE FOURTH GUNMAN by Merle...

When I read Frank Gruber’s retelling of his days as a struggling then successful pulp fiction writer from the 1930s, I realized something ...