Daily Pulp 09: All Sorts of Things Started Out As Pulp...

All sorts of things are pulp. We'll get deeper into that as we go along. Here's something which is now considered high literature, but first appearing in a cheap paperback with a lurid cover. The "voice" is not unlike the voice of any private eye novel from the same year (1953). It's the hard-boiled New York City voice, speaking the hard-boiled New York City lingo. I recognize it because my father spoke it, fluently, and I grew up hearing it. Odds are you'll guess the author and the book, if only from the subject matter...