Two G.I.’s on the loose, with girls, loot and a town to take
Back cover blurb:
Move over, Kitty! Make way for Percy, Duchess of Harford (nicknamed the Duchess Hotspur)
A later cover by Charles Binger can be seen here
She knew too much — far too much — and she had to die before she talked
From the back:
I stared down at the body of my wife. There was a lot of time and a lot of booze between Carla and me. I didn’t love her any more and I understood now that she was just a tramp. But even she hadn’t deserved to die like this, beaten and battered so that she was a mockery of what she had been alive. My name’s Jake Barrow and I’m a pretty good private eye. A pretty good man on the scent. I’ll find Carla’s nameless and faceless killers and before I get through with them, they’ll beg to die…
The Diary Of A New York Taxi Driver
via Greg McCambley and via
If you look closely you can see that he’s reading the 1960’s paperbacks with the great Robert Abbett cover paintings.
She was all woman — luscious, provocative, buxom — and she wanted her sister’s husband!
As opposed to this woman, who wanted her husband’s sister.
From the back:
Don’s wife was too busy for love-making. At a time when he was burning with unfulfilled passion, his seductive sister-in-law came into his life. Her beautiful body was his for the taking.
Sex and savagery, dope and despair, were the sign posts that led the victims down Temple Street, with death the only way out.