Category Archives: Books

I’ve just completed a fairly odd and apparently purposeless project (my favorite kind!), inspired, as per usual, by books that caught my eye. I kind of collect novelizations of obscure movies for the store, and two of them intrigued me … Continue reading →

Phyllis Greenfield was sweet sixteen – and never been stoned. Life was passing her by. So she ran away from her comfortable home in Cleveland, Ohio, and went to Haight-Ashbury to make the Underground Scene. There she met Furman, a … Continue reading →

Hey, it’s nice to get some media attention for what we do. Maybe the virtual journalists will prove more sympathetic than those newsprinters…   http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/05/31/mystery-writers-visit-ann-arbor/

I admit it – when I saw Dark Avenues by Ivan Bunin at the library sale I thought twice about buying it. True, it was in a cool UK “Oneworld Classics” edition, (with a largely inappropriate cover illustration – to … Continue reading →

THIS SENSUOUS POLYNESIAN PARADISE SET STRANGE DESIRES ABLAZE! SENT to fend for themselves on a lush tropical island, the innocent Crampton kids faced voluptuous temptation on every side. Soon pretty Virginia yielded to love making that turned her soul to … Continue reading →

These were my boss’s orders: "FIND A GIRL FROM THE UNDERWORLD. LIVE WITH HER." That was my assignment – to be the magazine’s New York underworld reporter. Only one man knew about it, my editor. It wasn’t hard, if you … Continue reading →

HOOKED! Millie joined the sex club for kicks. She told herself that when she got tired of that she would move on to something else. Unfortunately for Millie, it didn’t work out that way. Like so many other members of … Continue reading →

A NIGHT IN THE LIFE  The party was just beginning. The hip cats and turned-on teenyboppers were arriving on every kind of wheel, while hard rock mingled in the Southern California air with the sweetish, dreamy smoke of Acapulco Gold. … Continue reading →

To all the groupies, who made this possible.

  from This Man is Dangerous by Peter Cheyney   All of which is very fine but it don’t get you no place an’ it don’t do anything about that smart jane Miranda van Zelden who is a baby who … Continue reading →