Case of the Village Tramp (1959)

Case of the Village Tramp (1959)
Jonathan Craig

(Gold Medal Books)

17-Year-Old girl found dead in Greenwich Village. She's 100% totally NUDE except for an authentic medieval chastity belt, confirming the Village's status as the great perv magnet of the late 1950s. Chief assumption: you're a weirdo if you keep your jailbait under lock and key, but you're not a weirdo if you like reading about a guy who keeps his jailbait under lock and key. Hard-boiled on-the-job cop rousts the various suspects, slightly disgusted but generally immune to the decaying morality of the Big Apple. Has some champions, but I found this one rather pedestrian.