I'll bet Fred MacIsaac's serial (Part 1 of 5 in this issue) isn't as funny as STRIP FOR MURDER, the similarly themed Shell Scott novel by Richard S. Prather, but the title is still intriguing. Just the idea seems unusually racy for DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY. Elsewhere in this issue are stories by Cornell Woolrich, J. Allan Dunn, Laurence Donovan, Richard Howells Watkins, and John H. Knox, so it looks pretty good.
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Imagine how that story might be covered in SPICY DETECTIVE!
I wonder if any of the regular authors over there ever used that plot. It wouldn't surprise me.
As I dive deeper into 1940s and 1950s crime fiction, I marvel at how transgressive the idea of mere nudity was. So many books and stories had a nude woman (often a corpse) as the centerpiece of the action - with the nudity being the headline feature of the novel.
Yep, nudity was a pretty big deal then. All a matter of what you're used to, I guess.
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