In the grand tradition of the great pulps of the '50s comes PINE BOX FOR A PIN-UP. Frankie Valentine just wanted to take girlie pictures. But a jealous woman, a call girl on the make, a dirty cop, and a cross-dressing judge bent on keeping his secret, plunge Valentine into a world of murder, badger games gone wrong, blackmail, burlesque, and violence... Also includes GRIFT'N'GRIND a Frankie Valentine short story.

13 sordid and salacious tales of hustlers, lovers and losers, killers and thrillers carousing in a charade of lust, love, luck, and murder... where shifty, shady types clamor to survive, when no way out seems to be the only way out... "You read stuff like this and the top of your head comes off. This is pure dark, stark, powerful poetry." -Les Edgerton, author of The Bitch, The Rapist and The Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping "It's top shelf writing with a bloodshot eye for the gutter." -Charles Benoit, Edgar-nominated author of Relative Danger and You "De Blase wields a big heart and a...