Circus

Keep Your Money Side Up

Dime Detective Magazine Cover August 1950

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Dime Detective v063 n04 [1950-08] 0084-85

Also, His Fatal Fling and Kill Me, Kate! This entire issue can be downloaded here

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Mystery of the Girl In Pink Tights

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Girl Of The Midway

A story of the strange people, bitter rivalries, love and hate that flame behind a carnival’s bright lights

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Pardon My Poison

Also, The Salesman and the Devil’s Daughter

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Savage Breed

Behind The Tinsel And Sawdust Charm, The Carnival Was A Cesspool Of Sex And Savage Desire

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Joe Harper had the circus in his blood. And he was content to be the advance man for Bartow Shows until sultry, conniving Norma Donald made him her protege, Her. husband, Tim, managed the circus, but Norma had other ideas. And Joe was going to help her.

In love with aerialist Yselle Obello, he learned too late that Norma was a tramp with passion and power on her mind. She held all the winning cards. And she was prepared to use them to get every evil thing she wanted.

Apparently unrelated to this book.

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Strip the Heart (Original Title: Freakshow)

She Was A Carnival Midway Girl

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The Guy From Coney Island

An Intimate Novel Of The Carnival World

From the back cover:

Behind the glittering carousels, the screaming laughter of the fun house, the plaster kewpie dolls, the dancing girls in scanty costumes, is the throbbing, colorful world of the people who make the carnival.
This is their story, a story of twisted emotion, false pride, love and hate. It moves at a furious pace, from the boardwalk side-shows of Coney Island to the cow-pasture circuit, revealing the real, behind-the-scenes picture of the carnival world and its people.

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