
Hard Case Crime
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Hard Case Crime
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Yesterday's and today's best crime fiction, served piping hot.


Sin On Wheels, by Loren Beauchamp (aka Robert Silverberg). Midwood Books, 1961. Cover by Paul Rader. Silverberg did a number of these for Midwood. Owner Harry Shorten was trying to compete with Beacon Books, especially in the erotica market, and had a small stable of writers to rely on: Orrie Hitt (who could do a book every two weeks in his prime), Donald E. Westlake and Gardner Fox all contributed along with a few others. Midwood merged with Tower Books in the mid-60s before the disaster of the Belmont-Tower merger in 1971, where the combined imprint seemed to wander aimlessly between genres until it stopped publishing in the early '80s.

























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