Day Keene's Joy House was published 1954. A man loses five weeks of his life in an alcoholic haze. All he remembers is that he was a successful but unethical trial lawyer. And he does remember shooting his wife.

A nasty little erotic noir masterpiece.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/03/day-keenes-joy-house.html

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Day Keene, Passage to Samoa...just finished a new #OCR to #epub. Really a terrible (great?) example of 1950's sexy pulp fiction written with a male chauvinist pig sort of attitude. Even for 1958 this is bad. But also some interesting ocean diving pre-Cousteau's aqua lung.
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