Friday 18 December 2020
Angel's In The Gutter - Joseph Hilton
Wednesday 16 December 2020
Run, Chico, Run - Wenzell Brown
"Sharply violent serious novel . . . of teen-age gangs and narcotic addiction . . ."
Anthony Boucher -The New York Times
Wednesday 2 December 2020
Corner Boy - Herbert Simmons
Out of today's screaming headlines, here is the world of jazz and pool halls, crap games and gang warfare, dope pushers and prostitutes - the violent jungle of today's lost youth - the world of Jake Adams
Sunday 22 November 2020
Teen-Age Vice - Courtney Ryley Cooper
Revealed - The Shocking Truth!
Inspired by J. Edgar Hoover
Written in co-operation with the F.B.I.
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Crazy Mixed-Up Kids - William Hodapp
Monday 2 November 2020
The Needle - Sloane M. Britain
MAN OR WOMAN, SISTER OR BROTHER: HER LUST KNEW NO BOUNDS!
PITILESSLY EXPOSES THE DEPRAVITY OF THE TRUE ADDICT, WHO TAKES LOVERS WITHOUT NUMBER, PERFORMS EVERY HEINOUS VICE, IN ORDER TO EMBRACE HER ONE TRUE LOVE . . . THE NEEDLE!
DRUGGED AND DEPRAVED!
One look at Gina and you knew she was a nice girl - nice on top, nice on bottom, even nicer in between. Furthermore, she had nice ideas, nice morals, and a nice head on her beautiful shoulders. But a beatnik named Bob slipped her a charge of heroin one night. After that, Gina was not so nice. . . .
First came the orgies of dope and dizzying lust. Then the long transports of shameless ecstasy in the grip of the drug. And finally, selling that "nice" body of hers to anybody for any purpose. For solely in this fashion could she earn enough to buy heroin for herself, for her Bob, and for sleazy Willy, her filthy protector and pimp.
Fighting desperately to escape the drug and the degradation, Gina knew that in love lay her one hope. But she was truly loved, it seemed, only by another girl - by green-eyed Lois, the young sister of a dangerous dope-pusher! And he walked in, one day, while Gina and Lois were warmly embracing! . . .
A COMPASSIONATE STUDY OF DRUG ADDICTION, AND A WARNING OF ITS UNUTTERABLE HORRORS
Saturday 31 October 2020
Angels Camp - Ray Morrison
Young Criminals - in a prison camp without Walls!
This savage novel may shock you - but you'll never forget it. Bantam Books Inc. believes its readers want to know the brutal truth about juvenile delinquents - and whether there is any hope for them.
ZUBIAT
. . . that was his name . . . this sixteen-year old son of a jailbird father and a no-good mother. No wonder he already had a shady past behind him - and nothing ahead of him but a terrible, blood-stained future.
Then he was sentenced to Camp Matthews - "Angels Camp." There he met a lot of young hoodlums, whose life-stories will shock you. But he also met Mr. Grozier, the counselor who really wanted to help.
Coul Grozier win his battle for Zubiat . . . against Zubiat himself?
"Boot-tough novel . . . skillfully done . . . should go a long way toward awakening the public to the truth about juvenile delinquency." - KING FEATURES SYNDICATE