Orrie Hitt


Orrie Hitt was a prolific American author of over 150 books, mostly mid-century erotica, but including some crime novels early in his career. It has been said he wrote a book every two weeks at the prime of his career, sitting at his dining room table, fueled by large glasses of iced coffee and cigarettes. His first two books, I'll Call Every Monday and Love in the Arctic were hardcover books published by Red Lantern, but his career would ultimately be made writing paperback originals.
As a paperback writer, many of his books were written as "work for hire" and the copyright held by the publishing company who, anticipating a very short shelf life, never bothered to renew the copyright or return the rights to the author. The fact that all of his books, prior to 1964, are in the public domain has been beneficial to the legacy of Orrie Hitt, in that it has made them more readily available to contemporary readers.
Original Orrie Hitt paperbacks are collectible not only among aficionados of 1950s and 1960s cover art, but also among readers of mid-century erotica and crime novels, who find them superior to those of other "hack" writers of the time.

Selected bibliography

Novels ''as by Orrie Hitt''

[ File:Summer Hotel by Orrie Hitt - Cover artist Ray App - 1958.jpg|thumb|right| Summer Hotel by Orrie Hitt - Cover artist Ray App]
[ File:Cover of Three Strange Women by Kay Addams - Beacon B358 1960.jpg|thumb|right| Cover of Three Strange Women (1960) by Orrie Hitt writing as Kay Addams]
Year in parentheses is that of initial publication followed by the year of any reprint under a different title, if any.
  • I'll Call Every Monday
  • Love in the Arctic
  • Leased
  • Cabin Fever
  • She Got What She Wanted
  • Shabby Street
  • Teaser
  • Unfaithful Wives
  • The Web of Evil as by Roger Normandie
  • The Sucker
  • Nudist Camp
  • Pushover
  • The Promoter
  • Ladies' Man
  • Dolls and Dues
  • Trailer Tramp
  • Devil in the Flesh
  • Ellie's Shack
  • Suburban Wife
  • Summer Hotel
  • Wild Oats
  • Affairs of a Beauty Queen
  • Call South 3300: Ask for Molly!
  • Burlesque Girl
  • Girl's Dormitory
  • Woman Hunt
  • Hot Cargo
  • The Cheat
  • Rotten to the Core
  • Love Princess
  • Hotel Women
  • Hotel Confidential
  • Sheba
  • The Widow
  • Add Flesh to the Fire
  • Private Club
  • Carnival Girl
  • The Peeper
  • Too Hot to Handle
  • Sin Doll
  • Ex-Virgin
  • Suburban Sin
  • Pleasure Ground
  • Affair With Lucy
  • Girl of the Streets
  • Summer Romance
  • As Bad as They Come
  • Hotel Woman
  • Wayward Girl
  • The Torrid Teens
  • From Door to Door
  • Motel Girls
  • Tell Them Anything
  • Call Me Bad
  • Untamed Lust
  • Never Cheat Alone
  • The Lady is a Lush
  • Sexurbia County
  • Tramp Wife
  • Hotel Girl
  • Lonely Flesh
  • Suburban Interlude
  • The Cheaters
  • A Doctor and His Mistress
  • Two of a Kind
  • I Prowl by Night
  • Dirt Farm
  • Summer of Sin
  • Four Women
  • The Love Season
  • Frigid Wife
  • Virgins No More
  • Party Doll
  • Strange Longing
  • Man's Nurse
  • Hot Blood
  • Diploma Dolls
  • Dark Passions
  • Twisted Lovers
  • Suburban Trap
  • Carnival Honey
  • Wild Lovers
  • Easy Women!
  • Shocking Mistress!
  • Peeping Tom
  • Love Thief
  • Dial "M" for Man
  • Torrid Cheat
  • Twin Beds
  • Naked Model
  • Libby Sin
  • Passion Street
  • Bad Wife
  • Passion Hostess
  • Bold Affair
  • Campus Tramp
  • The Naked Flesh
  • Violent Sinners
  • Love Slave
  • Frustrated Females!
  • Warped Woman
  • Abnormal Norma
  • Bed Crazy
  • Man-Hungry Female
  • Carnival Sin/Playpet
  • Torrid Wench
  • Strip Alley
  • Nude Doll
  • Loose Women
  • An American Sodom
  • Male Lover
  • Passion Pool
  • The Color of Lust
  • The Passion Hunters
  • Lust Prowl
  • The Love Seekers
  • The Tavern
  • Woman's Ward
  • While the City Sins
  • The Sex Pros
  • Panda Bear Passion
  • ''Nude Model''