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Branded Woman

She Came To Kill

Beautiful jewel smuggler Cay Morgan landed in Mazatlán with a gun in her purse — and a vendetta in her heart.

International jewelry smuggling may be a man’s business, but beautiful Cay Morgan can hold her own with the best. Until the day a shadowy rival known only as The Trader has her abducted and scarred for life as a warning to stay out of his way. Now Cay’s on her way to Mazatlán where one of The Trader’s men has been spotted. There’s a big deal going down—but she’s not there to make a score. Just to settle one.

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Kiss Her Goodbye

For What She Went Through, Somebody Had To Pay…

When his daughter is found dead, underworld enforcer Joe Hope will stop at nothing to find the person responsible.

When people in Edinburgh want to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don’t pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope. But now Joe’s got problems of his own. His teenage daughter is found dead, an apparent suicide. Then the police arrest him for murder. But for once in his life, Joe’s innocent—and with help from Scotland’s hardest men (and one of Scotland’s hardest women), he sets out to find the person who framed him and deliver his own brutal brand of justice.

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Home Is The Sailor

She Took A Man And Made Him A Murderer

After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. What he found was Corliss Mason: sensual, irresistible—and deadly. Soon Swede’s helping Corliss cover up a killing, but how long can they get away with murder? And why can’t he shake the terrible suspicion that he’s being set up?

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The Confession

Was he an innocent man… or a depraved killer?

Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he’s also got a mistress. And when Jake’s mistress is found strangled to death with his necktie, it’s up to him to prove he didn’t do it. But how can he, when all the evidence says he did?

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Little Girl Lost

Miranda Sugarman was going to become a doctor. So how did she end up shot to death on the roof of New York’s seediest strip club?

Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up shot to death on the roof of New York’s seediest strip club? It’s up to detective John Blake to uncover his ex-girlfriend’s secret life as a strip tease queen. But the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets he uncovers, until a shattering face-off in an East Village tenement changes his life forever..

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Fade to Blonde

She Was A Little Taste Of Heaven — And A One-Way Ticket To Hell!

Ray Corson came to Hollywood to be a screenwriter, not hired muscle. But when a beautiful girl with a purse full of cash asks for your help, how can you say no? So Corson agrees to protect starlet Rebecca LaFontaine from a vengeful mobster — but what he doesn’t realize is that he’ll have to join the Mob to do it.

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Slave Girl for Auction

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Sold for: $33,460.00

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The Leopard Girl’s Romance

From Dec 1936. This issue sold for $3,107.00 in 2006.

Campus Doll

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The intimate story of a coed who turned “love” into a big business

From the back:

At Clifton College the male students were never frustrated. When a campus curie teased and ran, there was always Jackie Hayes’ “study rooms” to resort to. There you could do your “homework” in peace. There you could carry on experiments so dear to the hearts of all eager students, with tutors truly dedicated to their work: Sandy, Laura, Rita, Honey and even Jackie—the campus doll herself. True, this extra-curricular work led to no degree but it did satisfy a need, with girls on your own mental level —coeds who knew as much about English Lit, Advanced Psychology—and Love—as you did.

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Talk Of The Town

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51314024363_Film Fun, Vol. 66, No. 571 (November 1936). British edition

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“Windy” Zippo Ad (the company’s first ad)

Note that in this ad, both his names are misspelled: Enoc Boles not Enoch Bolles. Soon after the first publication, this artwork began to appear without attribution and eventually was mis-attributed to Alberto Vargas. Today, people sell Windy items on eBay and other venues, thinking it’s Vargas when it’s actually (and obviously from the style) Bolles; I understand that even the Zippo company is confused. As a public service, tell your friends, folks, it’s Bolles, not Vargas.

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