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Blues for a Dead Lover – John Davidson aka Charles Nuetzel (Uptown Books, 1961)

I approached this one with high hopes after reading Nuetzel’s memoir, and was going “what the fuck” by page five.

Truly one of the worst vintage sleazy books I have come across — so badly written my molars hurt just typing.  Why all the exclamation marks on every page (!!!) — looks like a preteen wrote this prose.

I even tossed this one on the ground.

Uptown was another imprint for Los Angeles-based American Art/Imperial.

This entry was posted on March 16, 2010 at 3:05 am and is filed under noir fiction, pulp fiction, Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Blues for a Dead Lover – John Davidson aka Charles Nuetzel (Uptown Books, 1961)”

  1. dox Says:
    March 16, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    I have yet to make it through an Uptown. The only thing that might be worse is a Rendezvous Reader. (And I think those were just piracies/reprints of Tuxedos!)

    Reply

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