*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Post-war faux American gangster novels (often termed pulps due to their paper quality) written and published in the UK have become something of a collector thing over the last decade or so. Written mostly by house names and featuring sleazy dame covers, the most famous of these are by the Hank Janson/Reginald Heade combo, but there are plenty of other fish in the sea too, for all the rarity of editions that have survived the decades. This week we have four works by Paul Renin (pen name of Richard Goyne), whose novels are pretty much sleazy romance rather than gangster tales, but their luridly attractive covers put them squarely in the same collector market.
PICTURED: All by PAUL RENIN
A DOUBLE LIFE UK PB 1950s Harborough FA £15
(Cover art by Reginald Heade; water damaged, edge discolouration, some loss to bottom right cover, image okay)
LONELY WIVES UK PB 1950s Archer VG £35 SOLD
SEX UK PB 1950s Archer VG £35 SOLD
UNEASY VIRTUE UK PB 1950s Archer VG £35 SOLD
(Small spine split at base)