Robert James Toy

Orrie Hitt has been referred to as the king of sleaze pulp. He wrote something on the order of 150 books from the 50s to the 70s. At the height of his writing career, he would churn out a book every two
weeks, working 12 hour days. His books were all capped with racy, lurid, tawdry covers and he had similar themes running throughout his work. The men are all con artists, grifters, shady characters that
could charm the skirts off any woman. The women in his books were lushes and tramps. And the men typically are juggling three women.

As Bad As They Come Is typical of Hitt's work. There's a guy who works in a small company who hopes to strike it rich when the boss retires. He's bored with his marriage and is having an affair with an office girl and has designs on his wife's younger sister. And if that's not sleazy enough, he gets into the mail order porn business.

Look, these books weren't designed to be read by literary critics. They were designed to grab attention from the bookracks and sell in order to pay the bills.

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