Everything Frank had was Johnny’s — including Nelli
From the back:
When he got out, he met the tantalizing blonde and had a shock. Nelli belonged to Frank Trask — the man Johnny had served five years to protect! Crossing Trask was suicide, so Johnny tried to forget the woman. But no man could resist Nelli Rivera when she was in the mood to be wanted.
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He forced an innocent girl to join him in a fiendish extortion racket
http://pulpcovers.com/cry-terror
A renegade gunhawk tries to make sheriff Blue Steele eat lead
http://pulpcovers.com/painted-post-range
The hoods had the best insurance in the world — the wife of a policeman as their hostage
http://pulpcovers.com/case-of-the-cops-wife
The Terrifying Story Of A Man Whose Mind Was Warped By Strange Desires
http://pulpcovers.com/the-crooked-man
They were Victims of Unreasoning Hatred
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“Can Think Of A Much Better Way To Take You For A Ride,” The Sultry Beauty Whispered.
http://pulpcovers.com/last-fling-of-the-playgirl-wife
The wild witty novel about the adventures of a master thief.
For this cover the concept was to show two art thieves, a man and a woman, in the process of stealing a painting. The painting would be shown in a forced perspective which allowed one side of the painting to be lined up exactly to the side of the cover. To achieve this effect, Avati first made a prop painting (Diego Velasquez ‘The toilet of Venus, ca 1650), stood it on the floor and photographed it in the proper perspectieve. Jane and a friend, Bill Convery, posed as the criminal couple. For years afterward, the prop painting remained hanging on Jim’s studio wall.
— The Paperback Art of James Avati
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