Kept
Lowery knew all about Simone Sobra’s men when he agreed to help write her book. But he was too smart to fall under the domination of the decadent sex queen. Or so he liked to think.
Topless And Tempting
Gloria, the topless dancer, thought she had broken Nick’s sinister hold on her until he came back. In the end, the only person who could help her was a girl who liked other girls.
From the back:
Deke Fagin, known to all members of the Syndicate and the police as the ‘Investigator’ was assigned the task of finding the murderer, or murderers, of one of Annie’s girls and a trick who turned out to be the only son and heir of wealthy, influential Wilma Van Dyke. The assignment should have been an easy one, but Deke ran into a series of com-plications . . . like dope, missing persons, more murder and a new mob doing their best to muscle in on the Syndicates operation.
In fitting together the pieces of the jig-saw of violence and death Deke is constantly in grave danger himself and ends up on a cold, lonely beach, begging some cop to give him aid.
Rita wanted to be good, but when she was bad she was better.
Her mother was a Spanish prostitute — a “puta’, her father unknown. How could she be anything more that what she was?
This novel by Lawrence Block was previously published as Born To Be Bad in 1959, and was later published again under that title in 1967
They Blazed An Immoral Path!
A shocking, post Civil War drama of rape and raw courage in the wanton wilderness
