Friday, May 14, 2021

Peter Keyes's sleaze / hardboiled novel The Love Odds

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Okay, here's still another crime-cum-sleaze paperback from the sixties. I already finished my book on the subject, and I'll write ab...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Lester Morris: Savage Lust (1962)

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Here's another noir novel masquerading as a sleaze paperback! No one has ever heard of Lester Morris, let alone his sole novel Savage Lu...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

The sleaze paperbacks of Max Nortic

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I'm sure you've never heard of Max Nortic. I wouldn't have, if I hadn't set out to do a book on American sleaze paperback wr...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Unidentified sleaze paperback

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Here's still another one of those sex papebacks I've been unable to obtain any reliable information about. It's by one Jo Ann Sh...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Movie review of No Country for Old Men written by a lousy typewriter

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Going through some memorabilia boxes at the cellar, I found this note, written by a plastic Barbie typewriter some years ago. Seems like I i...
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Friday, March 12, 2021

More unidentified sleaze paperbacks

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 I've now been reading more of these old sleaze and porn paperbacks that were published in Finland in the late seventies, and I've c...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Another paperback sleaze problem: Jason Brown: Little Girl Gone

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In my previous post, I was asking about two crime-cum-sex paperbacks that were published in Finland as by Ralph Hayes, but didn't actual...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Anyone recognize these two sleaze paperbacks by Ralph Hayes?

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Monday, November 16, 2020

Sixties' sleaze twofer: Mark Clements's The Boss's Daughter & Ken Kane's Racket Babe

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Hello again, it's been a while, huh? I got back to doing my book on American sleaze paperbacks translated in Finnish and read these two ...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Sex writer Peter Keyes's real name solved?

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Collins in the cover of a pulp mag I'm after a long, long hiatus getting back to my book on American sleaze paperbacks translated in...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Dorothy M. Johnson: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and A Man Called Horse

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I've been going through some American Western classics that have never been translated in Finnish, for some reason or another (someone m...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Dennis Hopper: Out of the Blue

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Dennis Hopper made only a few films as a director. His third directorial effort was Out of the Blue (1980) that has largely almost duplicat...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (spoilers!)

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Lots has been said about Tarantino's newest film, and I don't pretend I have something entirely new to say about it. I enjoyed the f...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Tana French: The Witch Elm

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As almost everyone who's ever read my blog (that sadly seems defunct most of the time nowadays) knows I love American crime fiction. But...
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Thursday, August 08, 2019

Friday's Forgotten Book: Donald E. Westlake: Brothers Keepers

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I've always been more interested in Donald Westlake's darker and more hardboiled stories than his humorous crime fiction, but I was ...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Ed Wood's sex stories coming your way!?

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Ed Wood's erotic prose is getting a collection. Find out more about it here ! I never got around to reading Wood's earlier horro...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Jordan Harper: She Rides Shotgun

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I'm late joining the crowd praising Jordan Harper's first novel, She Rides Shotgun . It came out already in 2017 (okay, less than ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Jason Starr: Fugitive Red

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I bought three new crime novels for Christmas presents for myself, and I managed to read two of them during the holidays (Tana French's ...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Sam Hawken: Missing

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I really liked Hawken's earlier novel, Juaréz Dance , in all its minimalism. During the last Christmas holiday, I read his later novel...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Time of the Heathen (1962)

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Okay, this is not an overlooked film, it's forgotten to the point of being almost non-existent. I saw the movie on 35 mm film in the scr...
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