Vintage Pulp | Jul 1 2016 |
Hard to get and impossible to get rid of.
Above, a cover from Beacon Books for Robert Turner's Woman Chaser, 1962. Turner was a prolific author of hard boiled fiction. Writing as Turner, as well as Eric Calhoun, K.K. Klein, Parker Lee, Lisa Roberts, et al, he produced titles such as She Devil, Cheater, The Night Is for Screaming, and The Girl in the Cop's Pocket. In this one a habitual cheater gets involved with much a younger woman, and as he devlops feelings for her, his wife emerges from alcoholism (a reason he began cheating in the first place), and he finds that the old marital emotions are still there. Things get complicated fast. There's some competence here from Turner, and the love scenes are written with enough skill to work as eroticism. With cover art by Jack Thurston.
Vintage Pulp | Sep 20 2013 |
It’s not their fault—it’s a jean-etic disorder.
In pulp and sleaze fiction there are many types of bad women—vamps, golddiggers, black widows, you name it—but women who wear jeans, or even jean shorts, are destined for a special brand of trouble. Some of these women are already corrupt while others are merely at the gateway, but they all end up in the same place—Calamity City, daddy-o.