[arasina]

I used to read them when I was a KID, fah hevinsakes. My grandmother had a thing for trashy detective magazines. It was then that I first became acquainted with the word sexy and asked her what it meant. LOL

[Billthedrill]

Some were astoundingly good - Raymond Chandler could be encountered there. And there were odd bits of knowledge to be stashed away - not a lot of people realize that "bimbo" used to refer to a male gangster, or where to get brass knuckles, or the proper employment of a blackjack...