Michael Morgan - The Blonde Body
(Original Title: Nine More Lives)
Lion Books 11, 1949
Cover Artist: Len Oehmen

"A killer meets a too-willing woman."

"... a tough-as-nails murder yarn..."

Michael Morgan was a pseudonym of C.E. Carle and Dean M. Dorn

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R.N. Linscott (editor) - Omnibus of American Humor
(Original Title: Comic Relief)
Popular Library 170, 1949
Cover Artist: James Trembath

"Selections from the nation's best wits."
E.B. White
Corey Ford
Milt Gross
Dorothy Parker
Frank Sullivan
Marc Connelly
Stephen Leacock
James Thurber
Ogden Nash
Robert Benchley
S.J. Perelman
Don Marquis
Ring Lardner
Will Cuppy
and Others

Interesting that Canadian Stephen Leacock was included.

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Raymond Thorp - Hooked!
(Original Title: Viper)
Paperback Library 52-220, 1963
Cover Artist: Tony Kokinos

"The true, brutally frank, no-holds-barred confessions of a drug addict."

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Margaret Carruthers - His Best Friend's Wife
Beacon Books B402, 1961
Cover Artist: unknown

"Jim Lane occupied himself with a bevy of seductive beauties—mantraps such as Veronica, Antoinette and Grace. But only Diane could satisfy his raging passions, and she was... his best friend's wife."

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Wirt Williams - Passiontide
(Original Title: Love in a Windy Space)
Avon Books T-224, 1958
Cover Artist: Unknown

"A telling novel of a lost lady."

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