Showing posts with label Digit Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digit Books. Show all posts

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.



DIGIT BOOKS R288
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING - NO DATE
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK AS 'DESIGNS IN SCARLET' BY LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, USA 1939

TEEN-AGE VICE
By
COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER

They hold orgies in cellar clubs, go on juke-joint and motel 'honeymoons'. They get hopped up on liquor and dope, then rob and rape and murder. They are the young people under twenty-one who commit more than half of the major crimes in the U.S.A.

A DIGIT BOOK

Friday, 4 September 2020

Brighton Belle - Arthur Le Bern

 The sensational novel of a vicious back street world of pimps, prostitutes and racketeers


Digit Books R831
First Printing 1964
London, UK
Originally published in hardback by W.H. Allen & Co, 1963

BRIGHTON BELLE

ANOTHER BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY

Set in the twilight world of racecourse tipsters and small-time gangsters, BRIGHTON BELLE is a searing, dramatic story of what happens to a group of oddly assorted people on a day in summer.

It is a chilling story about shady characters mixed up, for a violent period, with the law-abiding and the innocent, by an author who is master of suspense and evocation. Mr. LaBern's first novel IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY was hailed by James Agate as "the most exciting thing of its kind since Somerset Maugham wrote "LIZA OF LAMBETH", and was filmed successfully by Ealing Studios.

A DIGIT BOOK

Thursday, 7 February 2019

THE BIG RUMBLE - Edward De Roo

A NEW SHOCKER OF MODERN YOUTH!


DIGIT ROYAL R360
FIRST PRINTING - NO DATE
LONDON, U.K.
FIRST PUBLISHED BY ACE BOOKS, U.S.A. 1960 AS 'RUMBLE AT THE HOUSING PROJECT"

Young Larry Talos was plenty tough, but he was also a notch smarter than the other local teen-agers. That was why he wanted to stay clear of their gangs. Besides he had a girl-friend who couldn't afford to get mixed up with the Spiders-for she had been the doll of an enemy chief now doing a turn in reform school. But the Spiders wanted Larry...enough to make him a special target for all the hell they could dream up. All the same, the day he joined them was the day they all signed their own death warrants!

Monday, 29 May 2017

Go, Man, Go! - Edward De Roo

Highway Thrills, Race Car Kicks...and Love-Hungry Chicks!
Lawless Hot-Rodders! A Jungle on Wheels...


DIGIT BOOKS R357
1ST PRINTING • NO DATE
LONDON, UK

Faster! Faster! Faster!

It's real cool, man. When you're a kid in a hot-rod you just wanta GO! And there ain't nothin' or nobody gonna stop you, 'cause behind that wheel you're the most.

And if you're in with the gang-you ain't never gonna chicken out on 'em, 'cause you can't, you'd die first!

Saturday, 15 April 2017

A Rage To Kill - B. E. Lovell

Young Hoodlums...out to Maim and Murder!


DIGIT BOOKS D253
1ST PRINTING - NO DATE
LONDON, UK

Private investigator Edge Hannegan had sent his partner, on a routine mission. But Danny never reported back. His bloody, beaten body lay in an alley, surrounded by garbage...and all the evidence said it was the work of some thrill-crazed young punks...

This is the gripping story of a manhunt on Terror's dark pavements.

Saturday, 1 April 2017

It's Trad Dad - Macgregor Urquhart


DIGIT BOOKS (NO NUMBER)
FIRST PRINTING (NO DATE)
LONDON, UK
64 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
MOVIE TIE-IN

Friday, 17 June 2016

Play It Cool - Jack Gerstine

Wild Days and Nights of a Young Hoodlum...


DIGIT BOOKS R295
FIRST PRINTING - NO DATE
LONDON, UK

The teeming streets of Brooklyn were a battle-ground for fifteen-year-old Joey Vanne. A bright personable kid, he might have gone far once, but he was already marked down as a 'Juvenile Delinquent'.

You've read before about boys like Joey-good kids gone wrong. But never before has there been such a blazingly real story-one that is utterly true to life-about today's teen-agers on the prowl.

Sunday, 1 February 2015

Must I Die? - Francine Wenzell

"A gutter-girl she became a gangster's moll...and then a tycoon's toy..."


DIGIT BOOKS D293
LONDON, UK
FIRST WORLD PUBLICATION 1959

MUST I DIE

This is the tough story of Toni, a young girl who was born in the slums of New York's waterfront strip. She becomes involved in a smuggling racket...and eventually a kidnapping.

But Toni has he big moments too...when a millionaire takes her up and shows her the town. It doesn't last though and, in the end, Justice exacts its price for wrong-doing...

Monday, 12 January 2015

The Gorbals Story - Edward Gaitens

"The Toughest Area of Glasgow!"


DIGIT BOOKS R582
LONDON, UK
FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING - NO DATE
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK AS 'DANCE OF THE APPRECNTICES'

THE GORBALS STORY
Here is a novel that gives us a deeper insight into The Gorbals - a district hitherto notorious only for unrelieved sordiness and hooliganism.

Famous for his short stories, in this novel the author weaves together the comedy and tragedy of Glasgow life in the years preceding and between the two World wars.

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Hate Alley - Martin L. Weiss

"Days and nights of a Juvenile Delinquent..."


DIGIT BOOKS R391
LONDON, UK
1ST PRINTING - NO DATE

What turned Gary Miller from a lovable boy into a case-hardened criminal?
Was it prowling the jungle of the streets? His Family? His Friends?
Or was it simply the evil, corroding influence of Hate Alley, the breeding place of crime?
Anyway, somewhere along the line this lad went wrong.
As far wrong as you can go-murder!