Pulp Covers

Die By Night

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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The Naked Canvas

Her Body Was Known To Many But Only One Man Knew Her Heart

Also published as a double volume with French Maid

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Rutledge Trails The Ace of Spades

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The Golden Violet

Her passions were too long imprisoned

From the back:

The dramatic story of a woman whose passions were too long imprisoned, and of the violence and horror which followed their release — of which infidelity was only the merest beginning…

How a book with this cover and summary failed to include the phrase “found comfort in the arms of a woman” I’ll never know.

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