#sleazefiction — Public Fediverse posts

Killer AKA Passion Killer, a 1965 sleaze/noir novel by Robert Silverberg (as Don Elliott). A man hires a hitman to kill his wife. Emotional and sexual betrayals follow. As sleaze it's good; as noir fiction it's OK. Has a good femme fatale.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/robert-silverbergs-killer.html

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Orrie Hitt’s 1957 novel Trailer Tramp falls into the trailer camp sleaze sub-genre. Sex and sin in trailer camps adding up to trouble. Hitt was a genius at combining sleaze and noir. This book has both although he certainly wrote better books.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/orrie-hitts-trailer-tramp.html

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Gardner Francis Fox's Silverfinger from 1973, a Cherry Delight sexy crime thriller. Cherry, ace NYMPHO agent, has to stop the Mob taking over a shipping empire. And find time to get laid as well. A great fun violent sleazy sexy action thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/05/gardner-francis-foxs-silverfinger.html

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A Gun for Honey was published 1958. Busty hardboiled girl PI Honey West (who packs a rod and never wears a bra) is after a psycho who kisses girls to death. The mystery plot is solid. Sleazy, perverse, trashy, amusing, entertaining, delightful.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/02/gg-ficklings-gun-for-honey.html

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Dell Holland's The Far Out Ones, published 1963, combines sleaze and beatniks although beatniks play a rather small role. it's genuinely amusing, pleasingly crazy and frenetic, and very sleazy. A cheerfully amoral good-natured feel-good story.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/04/dell-hollands-far-out-ones.html

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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

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Dial ‘M’ for Man is an excellent 1962 Orrie Hitt novel. He's usually described as a writer of sleaze fiction but mostly his books are noir fiction with some sleaze. This one is pure noir fiction. An honest TV repairman meets a dangerous blonde.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/12/orrie-hitts-dial-m-for-man.html

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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

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Have Nude, Will Travel, published 1962 under the pseudonym Clyde Allison, is typical of William Knoles' crazy sexy comic romps. Nobody did this stuff better. This one's about a pilot masquerading as a soldier of fortune. Clever and very funny.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/clyde-allisons-have-nude-will-travel.html

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Lust Queen (AKA The Decadent), a 1961 sleaze novel written by Robert Silverberg as Don Elliott. A writer employed to ghost a movie star's autobiography finds that sharing her bed is part of the deal. Silverberg wrote thoughtful quality sleaze.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/robert-silverbergs-lust-queen-aka.html

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Meg is a 1960 sleaze novel written by Robert Silverberg (as Loren Beauchamp). A tale of the horrors lying in wait for small-town girls trying to make it in Hollywood. Fun novel about Hollywood's sleazy underbelly and a woman’s search for love.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/08/robert-silverbergs-meg.html

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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

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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

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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

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