Your Wednesday paperback cover this week is a Beacon original from one Orrie Hitt, who turned out a huge number of sleaze paperbacks. Unlike writers like Lawrence Block or Charles Willeford, who also worked writing sleaze novels, no one, as far as I can tell, has claimed that Hitt wrote anything of lasting importance. His books did, however, sport some truly sordid covers.
Review: The Corrupters - William Francis
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One of my favorite types of hardboiled novel is the one where the
protagonist takes on the organization of a crooked boss who runs the whole
town. That’...
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