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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Gordon Semple's 1945 sleaze novel Bad Company is about Eileen Cooper. Whether she's bad company or good company depends on what you want from a girl. If you want love, devotion and home-baked cookies then she’s bad company. If you want a good time in bed and you have plenty of money she can be very good company.

She is not just a cheap hooker. She’s very expensive.

Plenty of emotional and sexual melodrama here.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2020/07/gordon-semples-bad-company.html

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Jack Oleck’s 1959 novel Messalina belongs to a rather interesting sub-genre which we could perhaps call historical sleaze fiction - historical fiction with the emphasis on sex, sin and scandal. The book is undoubtedly wildly inaccurate historically but it's fun trash.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2022/06/jack-olecks-messalina.html

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What am I hoping for here? Discussions about classic movies, horror movies and cult movies obviously. Most cult genres from the 30s to the 80s. And vintage popular fiction genres. Mostly I like stuff that the mainstream regards as trash. So, some hashtags.

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