Private Chauffeur

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Intimate Novels Digest #15 1952

“What did he have that every woman wanted?”

A car, apparently.

“A restless suburban wife — her thirsting teen-age daughter — her husband’s voluptuous mistress… All three were at the tender mercy of the handsome man-servant!”

From the back:

UNFAITHFUL WIFE .. . . AND FAITHLESS HUSBAND!
Why stop at meeting the man in a hotel, Dolores Carter asked herself. Why not bring him home as your chauffeur? It was easy enough to make the arrangements. Her money let her do as she pleased. It had destroyed her husband’s medical career — forced upon him an unwilling mistress —turned him into a man who inflicted pain for the joy of it —made of his daughter a love-hungry adventuress. But this was the last straw, the final act of emasculation Dolores had contrived for him . . .
On these pages are laid bare, as by a keen, cold scalpel, the minds of people caught up in an emotional tornado. Tearing away the masks by which they conceal their dark deeds even from themselves, the novel exposes the subtle ties which bind innocence to guile, good to evil . . . and three unhappy women to the Private Chauffeur.

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Nobody’s Angel

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Take A Cab Ride Into The Heart Of Murder

Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into violence personally. But what can one driver do about a killer targeting streetwalkers or another terrorizing cabbies? Precious little—until the night he witnesses one of them in action…

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Passport To Peril

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On the run —- behind the Iron Curtain!

From the corridors and compartments of the Orient Express to the shadowy, ruined streets of Budapest—which he saw firsthand as a foreign correspondent during World War II—Parker takes you on a nightmare tour of a land where life is cheap, old hatreds run strong, and a couple of Americans can find themselves in more danger than they ever imagined. With all the immediacy of the wartime dispatches Parker filed from Turkey, Danzig, Warsaw, and Bucharest and all the authority of a man who himself spent three years crossing borders without a passport and narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo, PASSPORT TO PERIL paints a heart-stopping picture of desperate men in a desperate time.

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Somebody Owes Me Money

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Even a New York cabbie can get taken for a ride…

SOMETIMES WINNING FEELS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE LOSING. Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it—but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet’s working for the other, and to the dead man’s beautiful sister, who has flown in from Las Vegas to avenge her brother’s murder…

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Home Is The Sailor

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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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Grifter’s Game (Original title: Mona)

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Did He Want Her Enough To Kill For Her?

Joe Marlin thought he was just stealing the man’s luggage. But what he wound up stealing was 60 cubic inches of raw heroin — and the man’s wife!

Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one that will leave him either a killer — or a corpse.

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