Having drifted away fro Gene Hill to Ruark, I also recommend his total sendup "Grenadine Etching". Grenadine was an orphan girl, raised in a house of ill repute in New Orleans. The madam was a juju woman, and the bodyguard bouncer was a gorilla--literally.
His somewhat-autobiographical novel, "The Honey Badger", includes the one of the greatest misogynistic put-downs in literary history:
"There is a bloody brave little animal in Africa called the honey badger. It may be the meanest animal in the world. It kills for malice and for sport and it does not go for the jugular--it goes straight for the groin. It has a lot in common with the modern American woman."
(Since this was written in 1965, it obviously does not apply to the 1990s woman, does it, DC?)
, Art