Tuesday, June 10, 2025

My book Dark Places and Little Tramps out

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I decided to break the silence here, because I have a new book out and it's in English! One day, over a year ago, I got an idea: I'd...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

George Snyder: Nick Carter: Jewel of Doom

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  I've been going through my forth-coming book (well, forth-coming maybe next year or in 2024) about American paperback crime and suspen...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

Robert Crane: Born of Battle

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Robert Crane was really Con Sellers, a steady writer of low-grade paperbacks working through the sixties and seventies for the small publish...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Axel Kilgore (Jerry Ahern): Death Lust

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Jerry Ahern was known mainly for his post-apocalyptic series like The Survivalist and The Takers. I haven't read any of those, but I rea...
Tuesday, November 09, 2021

Elliott Lewis: Two Heads Are Better

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This is no men's adventure paperback, instead it's a private eye novel that came out in paperback in 1980. The publisher was Pinnacl...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2021

David Hagberg: Nick Carter: The Istanbul Decision

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I've never read any books by David Hagberg, though he seems to have been prolific and at least somewhat appreciated writer of spy thrill...
Friday, September 24, 2021

James Fritzhand: Nick Carter: Sign of the Cobra

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As I said, I was going to post short reviews of some paperbacks I'll be reading in the coming months as I'm making a sequel to my or...
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Saturday, September 18, 2021

Robert Ackworth: Young Doctor in Town

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I've been lately writing a sequel to my first non-fiction book that was called Pulpografia . The working title has been "The Shadow...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Sleaze novels that are also crime

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Many people know that lots of sleaze paperbacks are also crime fiction. Just to name a few: Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Robert Silverbe...
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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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