Frank De Blase: 3 books

It's 1960 and Frankie Valentine is doing just fine. The transplanted New York photographer is living it up in the Hollywood sunshine surrounded by beautiful women more than willing to dispose of their clothes and pose. He has no reason to go back east. That is, until the body of a childhood friend,...

Thirteen 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… Praise for BUSTED VALENTINES: “You read stuff...

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,...