A pulp Emile Zola, a noir Frank Norris, P.J. Wolfson wrote tough, pitiless melodramas of human corruption in the bleak urban jungle of depression-era America. Wolfson's brief career as a novelist, before Hollywood lured him away forever, produced four works, at least two of them - "Bodies Are Dust" (1931) and "Is My Flesh of Brass?" (1934) - classic.