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| Harry Whittington was born in Ocala, Florida, in 1915. When his family moved to a nearby farm, Harry survived his family’s rural poverty by reading books and sneaking into the local movie theater. Another escape was his writing. Ultimately the versatile Whittington would become known as “King of the Paperbacks,” publishing over 170 original paperback novels, using nearly 20 different names. | Before his death in 1989, Whittington also carved out a second career writing Southern historical novels as Ashley Carter. Today he is best known for the lurid and brisk noir novels he wrote between 1950 and 1960. | ||||||||||||
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A Night for Screaming / Any Woman He Wanted 1-933586-08-7 Two gritty noirs from the early 60's by the author whom Joe R. Lansdale calls "the king of plot and pace." New introduction by David Laurence Wilson, afterward by Bill Crider. Click on books for a larger view
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To Find Cora / Like Mink Like Murder / Body & Passion 1-933586-25-7 $19.95 Three very rare novels from one of the most prolific noir authors: To Find Cora, originally published as Cora Was a Nympho! in 1963. Like Mink, Like Murder, originally published in France as T'as des Visions! in 1957, and re-written as Passion Hangover as by J. X. Williams in 1965. And Body and Passion, the first book published under the Whit Harrison by-line in 1952. New introduction by David Laurence Wilson "100 percent perfect entertainment." Joe R. Lansdale
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Rapture Alley / A Taste of Desire / Strictly for the Boys 1-933586-36-2 $21.95 Three rare novels of death and desire. “Plenty of twists, turns and complications.” Eric Peterson, The Restless Kind. New introduction by David Laurence Wilson.
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