Two mysteries come to mind in which porn plays a role. One is
Sue
Grafton's K IS FOR KILLER; the victim is a porn star. The
other,
and by far my favorite of the two, for several reasons, is
Don
Westlake's ADIOS SCHEHERAZADE. This is a delightful book
about a
soft-core porn hack whose professional fantasies blend in
with his
narration of the real story, which revolves around his
writing a
Nightstand Book for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency -- at
a time
(1970) when Westlake had left SMLA and had Henry Morrison
(former SMLA
Vp) for his agent. (No easy task, that: Scott sued Henry over
his
acquisition of Westlake.) There are lots of factual details,
like
the way Scott segregated the porn (soft-core though it was)
by putting
the manuscripts in black boxes (instead of SMLA gray), and
agented
them through a P.O. box in Grand Central Station. For those
who've
tracked down Nightstand books by Westlake and Block this book
throws
in a lot of background details while having at the same time
a great
(and different) Westlake plot on top.
--Ted White
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