Hard Case falls for 50-year-old VIRGIN
Sometime next year, Hard Case Crime will reissue Gil Brewer’s 1958 novel THE VENGEFUL VIRGIN, about a TV repairman’s torrid affair with an 18-year-old redhead, and their plans to off her wealthy stepfather.
Charles Ardai, Hard Case editor, called Brewer “a man who wrote with almost painful intensity and whose best books read like fever dreams full of desire and catastrophe.
In other Hard Case news, the rather saucy cover for their December title – a reprint of Richard Prather’s 1952 classic THE PEDDLER – has been unveiled. You can see it after the jump.
[...] EW FINDS CRIME IMPRINT ‘HARD’ TO LOVE Hard Case Crime has found itself plopped onto Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List,” as part of the magazine’s annual double issue of “things we love right now.” They even scored a double-page spread. Longtime BOOKGASM readers know that Hard Case has long been aces with us, for many reasons, not the least of which is the cover for next March’s reissue of Gil Brewer’s THE VENGEFUL VIRGIN, at left. See what we mean? [...]