Pulp Covers
The Best Of The Worst
The Best Of The Worst
Blackmail becomes murder and Pete Chambers is up to his neck in Scotch, violence, and girls.
The 1960 cover can be seen here.
As trouble-shooter for the syndicate he had a choice -- get the insider who was squealing to the cops or become a corpse himself...
A private richard named Peter Chambers and a redhaired honey named Miami Moonbean...
I have never seen the euphemism "private richard" before. Anyone else?
A few drinks with a blonde, and then smashiing violence and a blacked-out memory.
The heartwarming triumph over tragedy of Red Nichols, one of the all-time Jazz greats
Ersie squirmed away -- "you quit now, I'm scairt" -- but turned her lips up to his...
From the back cover:
... hill-country virgin... primitive desires and delights of sharecropper loving...