Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback: 1945-1955

Server takes us on a tour of the subversive twenty-five-cent paperbacks of the late 40's and early 50's that led readers through a lurid world of drugs, sex, and violence in sensation-packed tales of hard-boiled private eyes, deadly dames, sex fiends, beatnicks, and juvenile delinquents. This is the era that spawned Mickey Spillane, Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Jim Thompson, and David Goodis. 100 color photographs and tips on how to collect vintage paperbacks. "A terrific coffee-table book for the killer at heart." --Scarlet Street