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We not only republish long out-of-print mysteries, thrillers, westerns, le***an pulp fiction, war novels, gothic suspense & literary fiction...but we also publish some new westerns and non-fiction books about network television.

23/07/2024

VINTAGE SLEAZE 6 - 12 FORBIDDEN NOVELS FROM THE 1950S & 1960s: TWELVE forbidden, s*xy novels from the 1950s and early 60s, out of print for decades, collected in one volume

These illicit paperbacks were enormously popular in the 1950s and 60s, despite often being banned or labeled indecent. While there is plenty of s*x in these books, it’s mostly mild by today’s standards, more turgid prose than turgid flesh. But many of these books were ground-breaking in their day, either by breaking taboos about same-s*x or mixed race relationships, or by financing & launching the careers of exceptional writers who would later become famous under their real names.

Warped Women – J.T. Pritchard
Lash of Desire – Marco Spinelli
Bogus Lover – Hy Silver
Any Man’s Playmate – James Rubel
One Hot Night – J.T. Pritchard
Man Chase – Joseph Chadwick
The Wanton One – James Rubel
Frenzy of Desire – John Thompson
First Person, Third S*x – Sloane Britain
A Rage Within – March Hastings
Devil’s Holiday – Fred Molloy
Station Wagon Wives – J.T. Pritchard

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0D6PK1V96/lg-facebook-20

21/07/2024

SUBURBAN SINS: EIGHT FULL NOVELS by Douglas Duperrault, Fred Malloy, Joseph L. Chadwick, JT Pritchard and Louis Lorraine
Eight classic novels from the 1950s & 60s depicting the betrayals, passions, crimes and desires of people living the new, and controversial, “suburban lifestyle”... at one low price!
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19/07/2024

Out now: THE FRIGHTENED FINGERS by "Spencer Dean."
Don Cadee, as head of security for a large New York department store in the 1950s, is always on the look-out for pick-pockets, thieves and swindlers...but now, as he investigates the deaths of two women, he has to take on a gang of ruthless killers.
"Fast-paced and fascinating. In the midst of the breathless, and sometimes slightly wild, action you'll be absorbed by the intricacies of a store detedrtive's job." New York Times
"Exceptionally good...it has a novel new detective character and a fresh plot." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
"Spencer Dean" was one of many pseudonyms of Prentice Winchell (1895-1976), a prolific writer of radio dramas, short stories, and crime novels about unusual detectives (a hotel detective, the harbor police, a fire marshal etc.). He borrowed Dean's name from the manhunting hero of Crime Clues, a radio series he wrote for in the 1930s and 40s.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9R5Q91F

19/07/2024

Out now from Cutting Edge Books: TELL ME ABOUT WOMEN by Harry Reasoner. Yes, *that* Reasoner, the famed, erudite TV newsman. He wrote it when he was just 22 years old and it was published in 1946, when he left the army. The Palm Beach Post called it an "outstandingly good piece of work that foreshadows a real literary future" Alas, it was to be his first and only novel, forgotten among his many journalistic accomplishments.

Joe Wilson is a tough, cynical reporter whose life is all bourbon, beer and easy blondes. But then Maris Nordeen, warm-hearted, self-assured and golden blonde, blows into his life and changes everything, leading to a rollercoaster courtship, a whirlwind marriage and then a slow, tortuous awakening to the harrowing reality of their young lives.

"Reasoner has done a superb picture of a selfish, self-centered, highly desirable, and s*xy young woman. He writes with journalistic directness and simplicity but with definite impact." Palm Beach Post

"The book is partly autobiographical, and follows the pattern of a lot of novels from the period—war, discharge, disillusionment, and troubled relations with the opposite s*x." Pulp International
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19/07/2024

Out now: TROPIC OF CLEO by "Rick Holmes"
Three rugged men set off for the Caribbean to find millions of dollars in cash hidden by the Nazis...and split the lost fortune equally among themselves. But it isn't the cash that threatens to tear the men apart... it's Cleo, an alluring, mysterious woman whose physical treasures are every bit as tempting...and that can't be shared.
"Rick Holmes" was one many pseudonyms for Richard Hardwick (1923-1975), a prolific pulp author whose books included non-fiction about scuba diving and tie-in novels for the 1960s TV series Hawk and Flipper.

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19/07/2024

THE BIG BOLD WEST 16: FOUR CLASSIC WESTERNS By David Wagoner/James L. Rubel/Robert Steelman/Sheba Hargreaves
FOUR classic rip-roaring, action-packed western novels by three masters of the genre in one ebook edition.
APACHE WELLS – Robert Steelman
THE CABIN AT THE TRAIL’S END – Sheba Hargreaves
THE ROAD TO MANY A WONDER – David Wagoner
A MEDICO ON THE TRAIL – James L. Rubel
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0D8YTLBWY/lg-facebook-20

17/07/2024

The return of the western classic that the Philadelphia Inquirer says proves that David Wagoner is the “closest nowadays approximation of Mark Twain himself.”

It’s 1852, and it’s twenty-two-year-old Zeke Hunt’s job is to herd his family’s 28 insatiable scissorbill hogs from Missouri to California, where the Hunts hope to start a new life. But after his family is massacred, he’s forced to continue the perilous, wild, unpredictable journey across the Great Plains with what’s left of his scalp, his three remaining hogs, and Casper, an old whiskey salesman that he befriends along the way.

“Wholly delightful. The book is so enjoyable, it’s hard not to make a pig of oneself and devour it all in one sitting.” —Lafayette Journal-Courier

WHOLE HOG by David Wagoner: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0D29S85ZT/lg-facebook-20

14/07/2024

THE BIG BOLD WEST #15: FOUR CLASSIC WESTERNS
FOUR classic rip-roaring, action-packed western novels by three masters of the genre in one ebook edition.
WHERE IS MY WANDERING BOY TONIGHT? – David Wagoner
HEROINE OF THE PRAIRIES – Sheba Hargreaves
MEDICO OF PAINTED SPRINGS – James L. Rubel
WARD OF THE REDSKINS – Sheba Hargreaves
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12/07/2024

Four le***an pulp fiction classics, scandalous and salacious novels in their day, back in print for the first time in sixty years!

FIRST PERSON, THIRD S*X – Sloane Britain
ANY MAN’S PLAYMATE – James L. Rubel
WARPED WOMEN – JT Pritchard
A RAGE WITHIN – March Hastings

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10/07/2024

BEST PULP NOIR FICTION SUPER PACK 3: 25 HARD-BOILED NOVELS!
25 hard-boiled, pulp noir novels written by 20 masters of the genre, back-in-print for the first time in 60 years, in one thrilling, action-packed collection.
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08/07/2024

VINTAGE SLEAZE SUPERPACK 2: TWENTY-FOUR forbidden, s*xy novels from the 1950s and early 60s, out of print for decades, collected in one massive volume!

These s*xy, torrid paperbacks, with memorably racy and daring covers, were hot in the 1950s and 60s, despite often being banned, censored or labeled indecent. While there is plenty of s*x in these books, it’s mostly mild by today’s standards, more turgid prose than turgid flesh. But many of these books were ground-breaking in their day, either by breaking taboos about same-s*x or mixed race relationships, or by financing & launching the careers of exceptional writers who would later become famous under their real names.

07/07/2024

12 epic western novels in one MASSIVE ebook!
BIG BOLD WEST SUPER PACK 3

Apache Wells – Robert Steelman
Guns of Hell Valley – John B. Prescott
Canyon Killers – Bradford Scott
Heritage of the River – Muriel Elwood
Heroine of the Plains – Sheba Hargreaves
Gamblers Girl – John Tanner
Winter of the Sioux – Robert Steelman
Comanche Captives – Fred Grove
Conquest – Homer Hatten
Action at War Bow Valley – Michael Carder
Medico of Painted Springs – James L. Rubel
Road to Many a Wonder – David Wagoner

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04/07/2024

Today, Cutting Edge remembers Ralph Dennis, who died July 4, 1988. TALES OF A SAD, FAT WORDMAN, a collection of some of Ralph’s early short stories and poetry, is framed with excerpts from articles about him and essays from authors who knew him well. It offers an emotional, poignant and ultimately revealing look at how he saw himself… and how his past profoundly shaped his enduring creative work. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B083762RBN/lg-facebook-20

03/07/2024

Out now: Charles Gorham's massive WINE OF LIFE, the monumental and unparalleled fictionalized biography of Honoré de Balzac – a volcanic talent, a savage libertine and one of the greatest literary figures of all time.

This is Balzac’s incredible life story, from cradle-to-grave, from obscurity to fame, set against the dramatic, vividly-portrayed backdrop of 19th century France, shared from the point of view of the people closest to him. Back in print for the first time in decades.

“This book is big in every way and readers of romance, history and biography will all find this a heady literary drink, truly a wine of life.” Pensacola News-Journal

“Gorham has written a splendid and sensitive book that places him in the upper echelons of American authors. In Wine of Life, he does not merely write about Balzac. He is Balzac.” Jackson Sun

“This is a l***y, robust, mammoth novel. Gorham has done a superb job.” Montgomery Advertiser

“It’s certain to be acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this and many other years.” Quad-City Times

“Seven hundred pages, it is, though it will not seem tortuous. Indeed, the volume may get heavy only because readers will find it hard to put down.” Newport Daily Press

“A vigorous story as l***y as the man himself. Unforgettable. ” Meriden Record-Journal

“The author of the Comedie Humaine, that immense examination of 19th century French society, deserves a big book on his life and in Wine of Life, he gets it.” Oakland Tribune

“Gorham has produced a book which has the bounce and bitterness, the zeal and despair, of its subject.” Chicago Tribune

“Gorham has wrestled with this complex giant and won.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“What a story! Writing on a grand scale about a man who lived on a grand scale. Gorham has succeeded in re-creating the artist and the man – his peculiar working habits and his voracious appetite of women, food and clothes.” Virginia Pilot

https://www.amazon.com/Wine-Life-Charles-Gorham-ebook/dp/B0D52KFPNL/

02/07/2024

THE COUNTERFEIT COURIER By James Sheers

A Spy’s Life is Death

Judson Van Horn is a U.S. spy who is growing weary of the game…and the killing. He is the personification of brute menace, powerful, clever, tough and pitiless. And he knows that his latest mission could force him into betrayal and murder in the name of God and country. But he does it anyway, because that is who is he is….and all he knows.

An espionage classic — back in print for the first time in over 60 years.

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29/06/2024

DEATH'S LOVELY MASK by John Flagg
An espionage classic, back in print for the first time in over 60 years.

Hart Muldoon is a freelance spy in post-WW2 Europe, watching with cynical indifference the game of espionage play out in the rubble. He’ll work for anybody on the western side of the Iron Curtain. HIs latest mission, this time for the U.S., is to shadow an oil executive and his seductive wife who may be involved in a deadly conspiracy to prevent an Arab prince from marrying an Israeli woman, a firebrand for democracy, before he inherits his throne…and potentially increases America’s influence in the region. The assignment takes him to Venice, where murder and betrayal are the local currency, and everyone masks their true selves… and their violent intent.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CXLTD37M/lg-facebook-20

27/06/2024

MCCAFFERY by Charles Gorham is finally back in print! This ground-breaking, controversial novel, banned in Australia and other countries for its “homos*xual references,” was the dream acting/directing project of actor Sal Mineo, who was tragically murdered only hours after learning the movie would finally be made.

Vincent McCaffery is a bright, good-looking, and gifted teenager hustler who seduces both men and women for money. He moves from a NY tenement into a plush Greenwich Village brothel, hoping to make it rich, but he falls in love with a pr******te and then plunges into a world of decadence and violence when an older man becomes obsessed with him.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CXYGRRZH/lg-facebook-20

25/06/2024

“Charles Gorham has written a masterpiece. It is a remarkable tour-de-force in character study that will stick in one’s mind for a long time. But it is not for the squeamish.” Chicago Tribune

“The expertness of Mr. Gorham’s writing is evident on every page. A study of juvenile delinquency and its final flowering, makes its points in the crudest and most violent terms. One believes everything this doomed young destroyer of society does and says.” New York Times

THE FUTURE MR. DOLAN by Charles Gorham: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CZTS97Y7/lg-facebook-20

23/06/2024

Charles Gorham’s acclaimed, controversial and banned novel, lost for over sixty years, is finally back in print.

Who is Carlotta McBride? In the swank nightclubs of New York, Hollywood and Paris, she is the beautiful and brilliant star of stage and screen… but in the dark, lurid dive bars and dark alleys of those same cities, she is promiscuous and self-destructive, slowly killing herself with alcohol, drugs, and risky s*x. She is a woman seared and haunted by trauma in her past that she can’t escape, whether it’s in the fantasy world of acting, or at the bottom of a whisky bottle, or in the arms of a brutal man. The only person who can save her is herself…but to do it, she will have to confront a shocking truth.

“A beautifully written study of an extraordinary young woman—a world-famous actress who is handsome, intelligent, unusually literate, and a profound and dedicated drunk.” —Los Angeles Times
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21/06/2024

A big, rugged story of Alaska…and of a spectacular woman as wild as the land that bred her.

John Crahan is a trouble-shooting engineer who likes big jobs and passionate women…and the Alaskan deal looks made-to-order. The job is to stake out a road through the virgin wilderness of the Mena Peninsula. And his guide is a woman whose structural magnificence is as challenging as the great mountains that loom on the horizon…and he’s determined to conquer them both. What he doesn’t realize is that it may cost him his life.

UNTAMED is a big, bold, adventure classic, back in print for the first time in over 60 years.
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19/06/2024

TRIAL BY DARKNESS is the driving, compassionate story of a young man’s coming of age, a well-born rebel who defies his family’s two hundred years of aristocratic tradition…and flees the horrors that churn beneath its tranquil surface.

“This is a brilliant book written by a brilliant man who has no fear expressing his ideas.” —Birmingham News

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14/06/2024

BED OF FEAR by Douglas Duperrault: A pulp classic, back in print for the first time in over 60 years.

It’s the late 1950s. Jane Martin’s skirt-chasing husband cheats on her, but she isn’t exactly faithful herself, feeding her insatiable passions by bedding her l***y boss at the TV station and indulging in forbidden ecstasy with an eager, teenage lover. It’s an unsustainable, high-wire act that will soon send her tumbling to ruin…

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11/06/2024

Popsy Meadows is a Sinatra-esque superstar singer with a massive following who is entering his fifties. His voice is cracking, he’s gaining weight, and he might just be drinking himself into madness. Out of desperation, he goes back to his midwestern home town to try and find himself again…or at least to see where he went wrong. He does it by throwing a massive party that could end up being his wake.

“Three-fingers of fun if your reading has been of the lemonade variety lately.” —Fresno Bee

BABY, COME ON INSIDE by David Wagoner:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CTYSKD7G/lg-facebook-20

09/06/2024

"The plot... has all the right elements... a first-class read." —Pulp, Crime & Mystery Books Blog on RETURN TO VIKKI by John Tomerlin

Vikki’s Sensual Body Was The Bait They Used to Lure Him Into a Trap…

Frank Selby is two men… the man he is today, living in a split-level ranch house, married to his boss’ daughter, and enjoying a typical, 9-to-5 working life. And then there is the man that he was…the smooth, debonair mastermind behind a series of daring heists.

Now his secret past is coming back to haunt him in the deadly, seductive form of his old love Vikki, who lures him into one last job, a heist that pits him against his sadistic former mob boss, her brutal new boyfriend…and the police, who want him for a murder that he didn’t commit.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CY9VPZNF/lg-facebook-20

03/06/2024

MCCAFFERY by Charles Gorham - NEW from Cutting Edge!

Finally back in print! This ground-breaking, controversial novel, banned in Australia and other countries for its “homos*xual references,” was the dream acting/directing project of actor Sal Mineo, who was tragically murdered only hours after learning the movie would finally be made.

Vincent McCaffery is a bright, good-looking, and gifted teenager hustler who seduces both men and women for money. He moves from a NY tenement into a plush Greenwich Village brothel, hoping to make it rich, but he falls in love with a pr******te and then plunges into a world of decadence and violence when an older man becomes obsessed with him.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CXYGRRZH/lg-facebook-20

31/05/2024

“Charles Gorham has written a masterpiece. It is a remarkable tour-de-force in character study that will stick in one’s mind for a long time. But it is not for the squeamish.” Chicago Tribune

Mattie Dolan is a clever and ambitious, 19-year-old sociopath, back from WWII and striving in the backstreets, tenements and dark alleys of New York to rise above the squalor that shaped him… and conquer the city. He does it with casual violence, brutal s*x, and by shrewdly manipulating others to commit crimes and other horrors for him. Along the way, he ruthlessly reveals the seething darkness that lurks behind the vast city’s many deceptive guises, each a mirror-image of his own pitiless soul.

“The expertness of Mr. Gorham’s writing is evident on every page. A study of juvenile delinquency and its final flowering, makes its points in the crudest and most violent terms. One believes everything this doomed young destroyer of society does and says.” New York Times

THE FUTURE MR. DOLAN by Charles Gorham: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CZTS97Y7/lg-facebook-20

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Out now: Walter Whitney's TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE, A novel so daring, it was banned and pilloried…and then disappeared for over sixty years. This is the story of country people, commonly referred to at the time as “hillbillies,” who travel to the big city for factory jobs…where they fall prey to ruthless, greedy women eager to fleece them of their hard-earned pay. Fran is one of those women, a former hillbilly herself, who knows how to expertly manipulate these mountain men. But then she gets involved with Leroy Landers, who wants more from her than what she wants to give, more than she can give, and when he doesn’t get it, his backwoods rage boils over. A savage novel raw emotion, sudden violence, and frightening lust. Upon its release in 1957, Take It Out in Trade was immediately declared “objectionable” by the Roman Catholic Church’s National Office of Decent Literature. The book soon fell out of print for decades and author Walter Whitney, believed to be a pseudonym, was never heard from again…at least not under his real name. Now the incendiary novel is finally back so you can decide ifit is irredeemable trash, or pulpy, harmless entertainment…or even genuine literature. You can learn more here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CKNTTZ7M/lg-facebook-20 In 1957, MIke Wallace interviewed Random House publisher Bennett Cerf about censorship, and used TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE, which Cerf didn't publish, as an example of objectionable literature. The full interview is posted below).

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