I Like It Tough (1955)

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Sweet As Sin And Twice As Dangerous

From the back:

They Had His Number
The Vice Syndicate’s slimy tentacles stretched everywhere. only Steve Ashe knew the inside story of the multi-million dollar traffic in dope and white slavery. And because he knew, the Syndicate had him marked for death.

One step ahead of the hoods gunning for him, he met lovely Fran Olson and fell hard. But even while he loved her he wondered if she was using her body to lure him to ruin. Only time would tell and that was running out on him…

A fantastic 1960 Harry Schaare cover can be seen here.

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Die By Night

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From the back:

It was Hollywood’s most peculiar establishment. Girls frolicked in the gauzy costumes of nymphs and goddesses… Men cavorted in the robes of Jupiter, Mars and Pluto! Joe Gaylord, private eye, swore to find out the meaning of these strange revels. Because one of the girls-the cute trick they called Diana — had come to his room late one night to tell him about a murder!

So Joe joined the cult, with the charming Diana conducting him into its sinister mysteries. They were close on the trail of the killer when in Joe’s own bed another corpse was found. The red-headed beauty known as Venus. Her arms had been severed above the elbow…

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