High Pressure (Original Title: Full Fathom Five)

1949 Bantam 716

These Men Were Brothers… But They Loved The Same Woman

From the back:

These Brothers Lived Like Beasts — And Loved Like Men!

Paul was a hophead! That was it, nothing else. You don’t go around teaching people not to take dope — you’ve got to beat it out of them. And so I beat him. I beat him and I beat him until my hand was blood red. I beat him for taking the dope, for having Evee when I wanted her. I beat him for Jonesy who died in the ocean. I beat him until his eyes were swollen shut and his mouth was thick and out of shape. I beat him until J was sick and then I felt a stab through my guts like a thick bar — like I’d been harpooned.

Two brothers fight like brutes in the smashing climax of this real story of life on the ocean floor where the pressure twists men into raging animals.

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Philanderer’s Women

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1955 Beacon B318

One Woman Was Not Enough!

From the back:

THE search of wide-eyed youth for love and fulfillment was never more manifest than in the wanderings of the philanderer in this biting novel. Unfortunately, the wanderlust continued even after he was married. Avidly, he went right on seeking love. Are these yearnings typical? Do they explain the adulterer, the hit-and-run husband so woefully common on the American scene?
Joe Wladowsky’s extra-marital bill-of-fare embraced such tidbits as a lovely French nurse, a pretty French-Canadian, and a delightful half-Chinese girl. There was also the pristine Miss Vernon, not to mention enchanting Soska, who yielded impulsively just before her bridal night. But trouble overwhelmed Joe . . . when he began to covet his own step-daughter. . . .
A BOLD AND DIFFERENT BOOK: COMES TO GRIPS WITH THAT SHOCKING OBSTACLE TO WEDDED BLISS—THE INCONSTANCY OF THE MALE!

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Murder by Latitude

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Her Honeymoon Was Brief And Violent

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“Are You Afraid Of A Gun?”
She shook her head, but she stared at the revolver with stolid curiosity when he put it in her hand. “You know how it works?” he asked. Anna Wicksted knew. She tucked it inside her garter and Lt. Valcour wondered if the weapon could stop another murder. An unmailed letter, found beside a dead man, had brought Valcour to this hapless freighter. Now a killer hid and struck and hid again. Could it be Anna’s love-hungry mistress? And why the stolen thimble, the pair of scissors and the lump of wax?
Out of the danger that menaced everyone on the ship only this much was clear to Valcour: The killer was clever, the motive was strange, and the dread end of it would be told in blood!

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The Cool World

1960 Crest (Fawcett) S386

From the listing:

First published in 1959, The Cool World is the most famous of Warren Miller’s work (all of which is relatively unknown) about a youth gang called the “Crocodiles” in 1950’s Harlem, New York City. Narrated in the first person by the protagonist and Crocodile member Duke, The Cool World recounts the story of Duke and his gang’s adventures and travails as they deal with street life in the ghetto and a rival gang called the Wolves. Drug dealing, fights, prostitution, guns, and gambling are rampant throughout this engaging, slim novel that rarely has a dull moment. Written entirely in African-American street vernacular of the time, Miller—a caucasian academic—accomplished a great, and mostly unnoticed, linguistic and narrative feat with this novel.

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Queer Patterns

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A Delicate Theme, Treated Honestly and Candidly

Also, lots and lots of steamy lesbian sex scenes.

From the back:

Here is a much-needed book which examines straight-forwardly the dramatic problem of women involved too intimately in one another’s lives — a powerful novel of a little known social menace. Read this book, and gain an enlightened understanding of the lost women whose strange urges produce one of the great problems of modern society.

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