Richard Geis was a prolific writer of sleaze paperbacks in
the fifties and sixties (and also in the seventies, perhaps),
but he's been better known as a science fiction fan who
published a fanzine called Psychotic for quite a long
time.
I've read two sleaze books by him and the other one is
actually quite good. It's called BEDROOM CITY, published by
France Books in 1962. It's about a writer called Ray Krell
who's doomed to write only paperback originals. He hates his
suburbian neighbours and his beautiful wife and has an
affair. This reminded me of Charles Bukowski and there's a
sense of appealing hopefulness in the story.
The worse one is GIRLSVILLE (France Books 1963), which is a
private eye novel, about a guy called Vic Kunzer. The novel
reads like a bad Richard Prather, but doesn't get enough
speed at any time. I've written an entry for Kunzer to be
used in Thrilling Detective.
Sorry, didn't have to do more. Merry Xmas to all!
Juri
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