“My number’s unlisted,” she told Liddell. “You’re a detective, find it.”
Tag: Paperback
The Body in the Bed: The Case of the Murdered Mistress
Murhaajan Seurassa
Hell is a City
Kill This Man
Girls And Gangs
Little Mrs Mannington
Another Piece of Fanny
Fanny Hell is back… finding her unique brand of fun and games at a swank resort hotel… and fighting the KKK in her spare time!
Who Killed Doctor Sex?
The movie colony panics when its favorite psychiatrist dies and his records fall into the hands of an avenging blackmailer
The Clue Of The Broken Blade
The Viginian
You Asked For It (Original Title: Casino Royale)
She Played A Man’s Game With A Woman’s Weapons
Yes, that Casino Royale. When the debut Bond novel was first published in America, it was thought that the original title was inappropriate for American readers.
The company’s marketing geniuses griped that the name Casino Royale wasn’t sufficiently saleable. (“Apparently, it was feared that American readers would not be able to pronounce ‘Royale,” quips a piece at CommanderBond.net). They wanted something different, a replacement that was more in keeping with the tough-guy stories then flooding U.S. bookstores.”Fleming’s suggestions for a new title, The Double-O Agent and The Deadly Gamble, were disregarded,” Wikipedia recalls,”in favor of You Asked for It. The novel was subtitled ‘Casino Royale’ and made reference to secret agent 007 as ‘Jimmy Bond’ on the back cover”
From the back:
If he hadn’t been a tough operator, Jimmy Bond would never have risked a weekend with a woman who used her magnificent body as a weapon to destroy him…
But it was toughness that had landed Jimmy his job with the Secret Service — the job of smashing the ruthless Le Chiffre and his spy network — no matter how many women tried to stop him…