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Michael Avallone - Lust at Leisure
Beacon Books B611F, 1963
Cover Artist: Darcy
"Everyone knew Betty – the sexpot of the suburbs!"
"An explosive story of a frigid woman who turned into a suburban menace!"
Seymour Shubin - Floating Bedroom
Beacon Books B577F, 1963
Cover Artist: Darcy
"When a girl boarded Tony's yacht, she knew what to expect!"
Esquire Magazine Calendar
May 1954
Artist: Ernest Chiriacka
I've been asked to come a-maying
And it all sounds very gay,
But listen here, my cavalier,
Distinguish well 'tween "can" and "may"
Phillip Sorrell - Doctors' Women
Beacon Books B486, 1962
Cover Artist: Darcy
"The Shocking Truth! Under cover of hospital routine lonely female patients, tormented wives, too-available nurses can become... Doctors' Women."
Paul Monash - The Unholy Lovers
(Original Title: Hellbound)
Avon Books T-342, 1959
Cover Artist: uncredited ... Darcy?
"A warning story for every man or woman who ever had to fight illicit desire."
James Savage - Girl in a Jam
Avon Books T-356, 1959
Cover Artist: Darcy
"Chuck Merrick, private eye, and the girl with the .32 gun and the 36" chest."
Esquire Magazine Calendar
February 1954
Artist: Ernest Chiriacka
"Leap year comes but once in four
So fear me not, young bachelor
Remember, if you sigh and pine
That the initiative was thine."
Peter Rabe - Mission for Vengeance
Gold Medal Books s773, 1958
Cover Artist: Darcy
"He left behind him a bloody trail of torture and death."
Orrie Hitt - Wayward Girl
Beacon Books B288, 1960
Cover Artist: Darcy
"At fourteen, an addict! At fifteen, a prostitute! At sixteen, an inmate submitting to strange practices!"
Esquire Magazine Calendar
December 1954
Artist: Ernest Chiriacka
All bright-eyed and sincere,
She says the Christmas spirit
Should be felt throughout the year.
She means it's comme il faut
To get a shiny token
Every week or month or so.
Esquire Magazine Calendar
September 1954
Artist: Ernest Chiriacka
"No indiscretions I commit,
At saying 'No' I have excelled.
And on my pedestal I sit
Until the day my nuptial's held."
Esquire Magazine Calendar
March 1954
Artist: Ernest Chiriacka
"Tax-worn? Weary? Wallet light?
How about a date tonight?
Expending thus is quite relaxing -
You won't find this outlay taxing."
March 15th used to be the US tax filing deadline.
Esquire Magazine Calendar
October 1954
Artist: Ernest Chiriacka
"Roses are red –
She likes them in bunches;
Little she knows
That you do without lunches."
Esquire Magazine Calendar
April 1954
Artist: Ernest Chiriacka
"I'm so awkward in the kitchen
That I just can't understand
Why several chaps are chasing me
And bidding for my hand."
Mark West - Object of Lust
Beacon Books B468F, 1962
Cover Artist: Darcy
"A novel that probes secret motives: – of men to possess, – of women to be taken!"
Mark West was a pseudonym of Charles Runyon.
James M. Cain - Shameless
(Original Title: The Root of His Evil)
Avon Books T-285, 1958
Cover Artist: Darcy
Henry Treece - The Pagan Queen
(Original Title: Red Queen, White Queen)
Avon Books T-363, 1959
Cover Artist: Darcy
"A sweeping saga of the bloody struggle for control of Britain between a savage Celtic queen and the libertine Emperor Nero of Rome."
Cover art by Ernest Chiriacka
Bruno Fischer was a pseudonym used by Russell Gray.
Originally published by Lion Books # 38 (as by Russell Gray) [1950] with alternative cover art and again (with art as above) by Gold Medal Books US # 901 (1959) - see both versions below.
Norman Daniels - Lover, Let Me Live!
Avon Books T-479, 1960
Cover Artist: Darcy
"The killer sold his soul for this sultry blonde and a private room in hell."
Ed Lacy - The Big Fix
Pyramid Books G484, 1960
Cover Artist: Darcy
"Here was a proposition he couldn't refuse."
Ed Lacy is a pseudonym of Leonard S. Zinberg
Charles Williams - Talk of the Town
Dell Books A164, 1958
Cover Artist: Darcy
"The whole town was the jury, and every time she walked down the street she was on trial."
A shorter version of this work has appeared in "Cosmopolitan" magazine (April 1958) under the title "Stain of Suspicion".
Tom Harland - The Torrid Widow
Beacon Books B616F, 1963
Cover Artist: Darcy
"The lonely, attractive widow found a motel on her hands. What she needed most was a good man – to manage her business – to satisfy her hunger."
Stephen Marlowe - Blonde Bait
Avon Books T330, 1959
Cover Artist: Darcy
"There by the scheming wiles of a blonde, was I – trapped in an explosive, murderous triangle."
Stephen Marlowe is a pseudonym of Milton Lesser
Ben Travis - The Strange Ones
Beacon Books B226, 1959
Cover Artist: Darcy
"The powerful novel of a tortured soul who tried to love a woman so that he would not love a man!"
Annabel Johnson - The Hungry Years
(Original Title: As a Speckled Bird)
Crest Books s201, 1958
Cover Artist: Darcy
"They were old enough to know better – and young enough not to care – "
Bart Frame - The Strange Co-ed
(Original Title: Co-ed Sinners)
Avon Books T-556, 1959
Cover Artist: Darcy
"The scandal that rocked the campus."
Douglas Locke - Customer's Woman
Beacon Books B726X, 1964
Cover Artist: Darcy
"Andrea made both time and money learning what jaded money-men wanted – and what they were willing to pay for it!"
John Furlough - Cult-Priest's Daughter
Beacon Books B496F, 1962
Cover Artist: Darcy
"She didn't know of her father's secret sins – now was it too late to escape him?"
"A book to buy—about a girl ensnared by the passion cult of which her father was high priest!"
"A novel to remember – about society's battle to stamp out forbidden sex rites!"
John Furlough - Yesterday's Virgin
Beacon Books S75158, n.d., (1971)
Cover Artist: Darcy
"One taste and she was hooked. She wanted more love. Wild love. Hot, sweet love!"
John Furlough was a pseudonym for Glenn Dale Lough (1906-1991), who used the names Glenn Low and G. Davisson Low to author several dozen Western and detective stories for a variety of pulps from the mid-Forties to the mid-Fifties. By the Sixties, usually as Glenn Low but sometimes as John Furlough, he had become a prolific soft-core novelist specializing in small-town and rural stories, turning out books for Beacon Books, its successor Softcover Library, and Novel Books.
Manning Lee Stokes - Under Cover of Night
Dell Books A163, 1958
Cover Artist: Darcy
"A blistering story of Korea - and a Eurasian woman with a special talent for survival."
Curt Donovan - Witch with Blue Eyes
Beacon Books B504F, 1962
Cover Artist: Darcy
"A novel that takes you behind the doors of the new American phenomenon - the plush roadside motel."
Michael Lawrence - I Like it Cool
Popular Library G488, 1960
Cover Artist: Ted CoConis
"Johnny Amsterdam – eye with a beard – squares off with the world of the beatniks."
Michael Lawrence is a pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar
Steve Yardley - The Club
Beacon Books S75163, n.d. ca 1970
Originally published as Beacon B874X, 1965
Cover Artist: Darcy
"Four restless husbands, four willing wives and sixteen scandalous reasons why they rode a merry-go-round of wild switch and swap!"
Theodore Pratt - The Tormented
Gold Medal s933, 1959
Cover Artist: Darcy
"A daring subject – masterfully told."
From the back cover:
"It presents an authentic picture of nymphomania in a novel about a girl named Zona."
Dean McCoy - The Night It Happened
Beacon Books B634F, 1963
Cover Artist: Darcy
Dean McCoy was a pseudonym of Dudley Dean McGaughy. He also wrote under the names of Dudley Dean, Dean Owen, Hodge Evens and Owen Dean among several others.
Esquire Magazine Calendar
August 1954
Artist: Ernest Chiriacka
I'm sick of corny summer Romeos –
In a month or two they'll meet me
And I know just how they'll greet me:
"I'd never recognize you in your clothes"
Ken Barry - The Bigamist
Beacon Books B597F, 1963
Cover Artist: Darcy
"About to be elected to high office, he learned he had two wives. Both were beautiful... both were faithless... both surfeited him with voluptuous delights..."
Ken Barry was a pseudonym of Ben Haas.
Ernest Chiriacka - Guest of Honor
Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention
April 23-25, 2005
Rosemont, Illinois
Fred Martin - Hired Lover
Midwood Books 13, 1959
Cover Artist: uncredited - reminds me of Darcy
"She gave him her body – and took his soul."
Fred Martin was a pseudonym of Orrie Hitt.
Peter Rabe - Mission for Vengeance
Gold Medal Books s773, 1958
Cover Artist: Darcy
"Yes, he was quite insane and quite dangerous. Before the week was up, he had brutally tortured two people, beaten and killed two others, and terrorized an entire community. Why? Because it was all part of his master plan, all part of his mission for vengeance..."
Herb Roberts - The In Group
Beacon Books B833X, 1965
Cover Artist: Darcy
"These suburban wives had their own sexual code. Anything went – even lesbianism – so long as it was limited to their club!"