Steve Shadow's On the Grift: Pulp Nastiness, With a Cover by Me

I did the cover design for Steve Shadow’s new novella, On the Grift, a cruel, filthy pulp noir.

Set in Chicago in the 40s, it’s written in the style of the pulp paperbacks of that era - but with the kind of sex and obscenity that couldn’t be published back then.

The blurb:The year is 1949. The place is Chicago in the dead of winter. The trauma of the war and its aftermath has yet to dissipate. The housing shortage is severe and the boom time of the 1950s still lies ahead.

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