#sleazefiction — Public Fediverse posts

Lawrence Block's Campus Tramp, one of his early sleaze novels written 1959 under the name Andrew Shaw. When love goes wrong a college girl devotes her life to sleeping around. Not a great book but intriguing when you read between the lines.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/01/lawrence-blocks-campus-tramp.html

#LawrenceBlock #AndrewShaw #VintageSleaze #sleazefiction #pulpfiction

A Diet of Treacle (AKA Pads Are for Passion) by Lawrence Block writing as Sheldon Lord was marketed as sleaze but is really beatnik noir. A very dark look at beatnik subculture, with three beatnik losers on the run. Offbeat but intriguing.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/11/lawrence-blocks-diet-of-treacle-pads.html

#LawrenceBlock #SheldonLord #noir #noirfiction #beatniks #vintagesleaze #sleazefiction

Born To Be Bad (1959), one of the many sleaze novels Lawrence Block wrote under the name Sheldon Lord, before he established himself as a major crime writer.

A slightly noirish melodrama that deals with human relationships in an honest and grown-up way. With an intriguing complex heroine.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/02/lawrence-blocks-born-to-be-bad.html

#LawrenceBlock #sleaze #sleazefiction #noirfiction #Noir #pulpfiction #pulp #SheldonLord #trashfiction

Tong in Cheek (1973), 2nd of Gardner Francis Fox’s Cherry Delight sexy spy thrillers written under the name Glen Chase.

Cherry is a secret agent working for N.Y.M.P.H.O., a shadowy top-secret US government agency.

This time she is up against an alliance between the Mafia and Chinese tongs.

If spy sleaze is your thing you’ll enjoy it.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/tong-in-cheek-cherry-delight-2.html

#spynovels #spynovel #Spies #spyfiction #vintagesleaze #sleazefiction #GardnerFrancisFox #spythriller #spythrillers

Borderline (AKA Border Lust) is an early (1962) Lawrence Block crime novel.

It's either a sleaze novel with significant noir overtones or a noir novel with significant sleaze overtones.

The border is the US-Mexico border, but also the border between sanity and madness, between self-control and debauchery, between order and chaos.

Good, but very nihilistic.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/04/lawrence-blocks-borderline.html

#LawrenceBlock #noirfiction #hardboiledfiction #crimefiction #sleazefiction #serialkillers