Wanton Rendezvous

Title: Wanton Rendezvous (Sundown Reader SR616)
Author: Dean Hudson (pseudonym of Evan Hunter / Ed McBain)
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1966

“The super-sleuths had run through the whole lot of vacationers, looking for that one birthmark that would positively identify the missing heiress.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Mystery and Thrillers

Return to Lesbos by Valerie Taylor

Title: Return to Lesbos (MIDWOOD TOWER F329)
Author: Valerie Taylor
Artist: Photo
Year: 1963

“A haunting story of a beautiful and mature woman, trapped in a web of her own making, drawn back to the world she had married to escape…her struggle with a physical hunger condemned by society even in this free-living and free-loving age.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

I Am a Woman in Love with a Woman

Title: I Am a Woman in Love with a Woman (Beebo Brinker) (Gold Medal Giant d833)
Author: Ann Bannon
Artist: Photo
Year: 1959

“Home to Laura was a dimly lit and badly ventilated bar on a back street in Greenwich Village. She understood the language there, she understood the customs. Only forbidden desires were recognized and love rarely lasted longer than a night. The tormented and lost women met there, and Laura, slim and boyish, found happiness for the first time in her life.”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Lesbians and Lesbiana

The Wasted Years

Title: The Wasted Years (Hillman 50-109)
Author: Jess Stearn
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1961

“You read about it in your newspaper but WHY did a pretty Texas teenager kill her brother ‘just for kicks’? WHY did a 17-year-old say, ‘I wanted to see how it felt for knife to dig into bone’? WHY did a clean-cut youth stomp a total stranger to death because he didn’t like the tune he was humming?”

Categories: Hot Rods and Delinquents