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 Sleaze-noir The term "Sleaze-noir" is used to describe 50s and 60s books written with hip lingo and a downbeat hard-boiled attitude towards life -- invariably mixing crime plotting with heavy doses of sex. Sometimes, they even worked the steamy sex build-up into the story line otherwise, authors or editors simply made detours into bedrooms, alleys and backseats for spicy passages. "Sleaze-noir" grew out of the pulp fiction and paperback original books of the 40s. Since most of the paperbacks of that time featured spicy sexy cover art (even to sell Shakespeare!), the editors figured they'd better come up with some text to go along with it -- and soon there was a curious inter-play between cover art and content, and writers like Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson and Lionel White (along with several dozen more) were soon including twisted sex in their twisted crime sagas. As the big paperback houses went more mainstream, the true sleaze publishers (like Beacon, Midwood, and later Greenleaf (all in the "Early Vintage Sleaze Section")) moved into the market with tales that featured sex and sexuality more prominently. Check in here and scan below for a wide assortment of hard-boiled fiction with some hard-boiled sex bubbling over the potlid!
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