Vintage Pulp | Apr 12 2016 |
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You know what's really tough? Watching you spill good liquor all over my new shag carpet.
Above is a cover for James Howard's 1955 thriller I Like It Tough, with a nice wraparound illustration from an uncredited artist. The novel deals with an ace reporter named Steve Ashe who has inside information on the “vice syndicate” and finds himself marked for murder when the crooks get wind of his snooping. It was first in a series of Steve Ashe novels, which of course means the hero survives this one to sleuth again. Hope that didn't spoil anything.