Terror Tightens The Noose
Cancelled In Red
Also, Court of Shadows and The Straw Men Murders
Homicide In Harlem
Also, The Stars Spell Death and 3 Kills For 1
Dealing Out Death
Assignment: Zoraya
It’s Raining More Corpses in Chinatown
A 2001 compilation of classic Yellow Peril stories.
Remember Fu Manchu?
With his army of Dacoit footpads, trained killer apes and poisonous creepy-crawlies, Sax Rohmer’s maleficent Devil Doctor held the reading world in thrall for half a century.
Fu Manchu’s glory years were the twenties and thirties–that fascinating interval between the two Great Wars. Innocence and ignorance weren’t mortal sins then. It was a smaller world, less complex, when houses had attics full of memories and old books, where you could sit and thrill to Tales of Chinatown and The Yellow Claw.
If the world view these fictions portrayed was simplistic and even jingoistic, it was a factor that seldom bothered homebodies of the Great Depression. For them, such remote and unglimpsed locations as China, the South Seas, India, and the jungled lands of Africa and South America existed as mere backdrops to tales of vicarious adventure.
This was the circumscribed world in which so-called Yellow Peril fiction thrived. The Chinese, or “Chinamen” as most Americans called them, had come to the New World as coolies to supply cheap labor for mining camps and railroads. By the 1870’s Asian ghettoized communities emerged in the heart of several cities: claustrophobic shadow worlds of serpentine streets and narrow alleys, soon identified as Chinatowns. While Westerners may have admired Chinese culture and tradition from a distance, our press chose to emphasize the most superficial and sensational aspects of Chinese life up close. Stories of bloody tong wars, opium smuggling, white slavery, hatchetmen, and gambling dens appeared frequently in luridly inventive newspaper accounts. The incorporation of these lip-smacking elements into the stew of pulp fiction proved irresistible.
Long Chance
Also, Poisoned Arrows and Renegade Rep
Troopers West
Also, Randy of Roaring River and White Horse Mesa
Fighting Freighters
Also, The Longhorn Trail and Six-Gun Range
The Coming Of The Law
Also, Dust on the Sage and Outlaw Justice
Mrs. Candy and Saturday Night
She Was The Scandal Of New Orleans
Love Is The Winner (Original Title: Who Wins His Love)
Another Woman Haunted His Heart
The Big Bubble (1958)
Street Girl
Kept Sisters
Three Lovers Were Not Enough For These Girls!
The story of sisters so love-hungry they shared the same sins — the same delights — The Same Men!
No Recent Novel Has Dared To Go So Far In Exposing Immorality Among “Nice” People
From the back:
Too Many Lovers!
Sue Harris was one of those provocative redheads who had it all — flashing eyes, lips begging to be kissed, long and beckoning legs. And her passionate nature drove her to bestow these attractions on practically anybody who came along.
At the moment, she was letting big Luke Wilson keep her. He was wealthy enough — and healthy enough — to give a girl what she wanted. But one man wasn’t enough for sleek Sue. She proceeded to work on the sweetheart of her kid sister, Rita, a ripe young blonde.
Rita turned to another man — his name was Dick Durant — but shapely Sue seduced him too. So Rita decided to fight fire with fire, and changed from a cool virgin to a torrid hussy like her sister, taking over Luke Wilson in the process. Sue now found herself broken, beaten, used and abused not only by the cruel and lusting Dick… but also by Ruby, his wildly wanton wife…!
Does that look like a man in a wig to anyone else?