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Four Lives at the Crossroads (Collection of Classic Erotica Book 19)

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Four Lives at the Crossroads (Collection of Classic Erotica Book 19)

FOUR LIVES AT THE CROSSROADS is the latest addition to the Collection of Classic Erotica. But it came very close to being shoehorned instead into the Classic Crime Library.

Back in the late 1950s and early 60s, when I was finding myself as a writer and producing a great quantity of books under pen names, some of the books I wrote were as much crime fiction as they were erotica. Indeed, several of those titles by Andrew Shaw and Sheldon Lord have since been republished under my own name by Hard Case Crime and Subterranean Pressâ€”and subsequently astonished me by garnering respectful reviews. BORDERLINE, LUCKY AT CARDS, and A DIET OF TREACLE are examples, and so to a degree is my forthcoming Hard Case title, SINNER MAN. A little light editing made them acceptable crime fiction for a contemporary body of readers.

FOUR LIVES AT THE CROSSROADS almost made the cut. After Charles Ardai at Hard Case considered it and ultimately decided against it, I weighed adding it to my Classic Crime Library. A dark, savage tale of an armed robbery gone wrong, it's not a bad fit for the CCLâ€”but the erotic content is high, and the editing required to make it less an erotic novel and more a crime novel seemed disproportionate. The metaphor that occurred to me, I must admit, was that of putting lipstick on a pig.

I did some light editing anyway, much of which consisted of reversing the helpful contributions of some unnamed editor at Nightstand Books. So here's FOUR LIVES AT THE CROSSROADS, available for the first time since its initial appearance in 1962. I can but hope you'll enjoy it.

This ebook edition of FOUR LIVES AT THE CROSSROADS, #19 in the Collection of Classic Erotica, includes as a bonus the opening chapter of the next book in the series, CIRCLE OF SINNERS.

Country	USA
Author	Lawrence Block
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	LB Productions
Manufacturer	LB Productions
NumberOfPages	177
PublicationDate	2016-05-10
Publisher	LB Productions
ReleaseDate	2016-05-10
Studio	LB Productions

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