Lust Queen (AKA The Decadent), a 1961 sleaze novel written by Robert Silverberg as Don Elliott. A writer employed to ghost a movie star's autobiography finds that sharing her bed is part of the deal. Silverberg wrote thoughtful quality sleaze.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/robert-silverbergs-lust-queen-aka.html

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Meg is a 1960 sleaze novel written by Robert Silverberg (as Loren Beauchamp). A tale of the horrors lying in wait for small-town girls trying to make it in Hollywood. Fun novel about Hollywood's sleazy underbelly and a woman’s search for love.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/08/robert-silverbergs-meg.html

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Orrie Hitt’s 1954 novel She Got What She Wanted is fairly typical of his work, blending noir fiction and sleaze fiction. This one is very noir, as a girl gets tired of living on farm and heads to the big city to make her fortune, at any cost.

It's not just noirish, it's very good noirish fiction.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/03/orrie-hitts-she-got-what-she-wanted.html

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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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Tong in Cheek (1973), 2nd of Gardner Francis Fox’s Cherry Delight sexy spy thrillers written under the name Glen Chase.

Cherry is a secret agent working for N.Y.M.P.H.O., a shadowy top-secret US government agency.

This time she is up against an alliance between the Mafia and Chinese tongs.

If spy sleaze is your thing you’ll enjoy it.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/tong-in-cheek-cherry-delight-2.html

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Borderline (AKA Border Lust) is an early (1962) Lawrence Block crime novel.

It's either a sleaze novel with significant noir overtones or a noir novel with significant sleaze overtones.

The border is the US-Mexico border, but also the border between sanity and madness, between self-control and debauchery, between order and chaos.

Good, but very nihilistic.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/04/lawrence-blocks-borderline.html

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Florence Stonebreaker's Reno Tramp (1950) is one of those salacious sensational American sex and sin pulp novels that were so popular in the 50s. At the time they were considered to be very racy indeed although today they obviously seem very very tame. It's like a combination of noir and romance fiction with a grown-up attitude towards sex. Highly entertaining.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2020/05/reno-tramp.html

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