title: Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction: An Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm
author:  Brad Mengel 
description: "this book is going to be my go-to reference guide for years to come...make the investment. You won't regret it."--<i>www.bookgasm.com</i>; "this thorough, easy-to-use study should be a welcome addition to libraries with interests in the ever-growing field of popular culture."--<i>ARBA</i>; "this book is clearly a labor of love, but it leans more towards scholarly analysis than fannish drool. It's a great book for fans of pulps, rich with details and background information...many of these books, and their authors, would have been forgotten if not for this one-of-a-kind reference work"--<i>A Book Made For Me-A Writer's Life.</i>
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  First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd  
  
  
  A CBS COMPANY
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2015 Abi Elphinstone
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.  
  
  
  No reproduction without permission.  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  The right of Abi Elphinstone to be identified as the author of this work has
  been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright,
  Designs and Patents
  
  
  Act, 1988.
  
  
  
  
  
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  PB ISBN: 978-1-47112-268-2  
  
  
  EBook ISBN: 978-1-47112-269-9
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiou