Killer’s Payoff (1962)

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From the back:

She did her best not to look voluptuous — but she couldn’t help it!

As the wife of a rich and politically ambitious man, Lucy Mencken wished to make an impression of quiet taste. But even in her loose-fitting suits she caused male temperatures to skyrocket. Years ago, when she had been a model, her extraordinary natural charms had been captured in a series of photographs, captured for all time and from all angles. Now she was paying a blackmailer $500 a month to keep those pictures unpublished. When he died — violently, in the city streets — Lucy thought her troubles would be buried with him. Then a strange man phoned her to say he was taking over — at a new price…

via McClaverty and Ted Bergman

Rogue’s Holiday

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When pirates lusted for women and gold…

… instead of free movies.

From the back:

Blackbeard’s thirteenth wife…

Her name was Raquel. The fire of her Latin beauty burned in her eyes. She was taunting, irresistible… Robert Maynard felt her dark eyes upon him, beckoning. Yet he knew that to succumb to her charms was death… For Maynard was Blackbeard’s prisoner, and he had seen the pirate’s own glittering eyes — the eyes of a ruthless killer who would give no mercy and ask no name… And then Raquel was beside Maynard in the dark hold of the ship, her voluptuous body against his own. “I shall not give you up,” she said, “never…”

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