The Soho Jungle - David Bateson

"A powerful story of a City's centre of desire"

PEDIGREE BOOKS 

LONDON, UK 

NO DATE

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ROBERT HALE 1957

When vivacious, blonde Judith Bramwell vanished from a respectable Thanet home, her father found reason to believe that she had been absorbed into the night life of London's West End.

Larry Vernon, aided by the beautiful and mature Angela Cameron, had an unenviable task in searching for the missing girl.

Had she simply run away to try to start a stage career? Or was there some more sinister explanation? Had she been drugged, for example? Larry had to turn to the underworld in his search.

And in the long run he stumbled on some vital information about a brutal murder, and unearthed one of the most cunning vice organisations ever discovered in that notorious area called....Soho.

DAVID BATESON, the author of SOHO JUNGLE, tells us that the book is not intended as a condemnation of the whole of Soho and its inhabitants. Rather it is directed against the unscrupulous minority there whose crimes of violence, fraud and pimping tend to bring the cosmopolitan neighbourhood into disrepute, making it the hub of what has been called "The Shocking City."

Hoodlum - Gunther Bahnemann

"Delinquents with sex laws of their own, they defied society in vicious orgies of brutality and vandalism"

 

HORWITZ PUBLICATIONS NA67

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

2ND EDITION 1965

You have never read a story quite like this!

A DRAMATIC EXPOSE!

It was written in the cell of a Brisbane gaol by a prisoner who had the opportunity of observing and talking to the worst kind of juvenile delinquent.

The facts on which this story is based are fully authenticated from press and police reports. It could be the story of any street-prowling delinquent.

Avoid these kids-you may be their next victim!

The Girl Outside - Alan Bestic

"The true story of Barbara Marston, 17 years old...Prison inmate - Street girl - Delinquent"

ACE BOOKS H481

LONDON, UK

1ST ACE EDITION 1961

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY BARRIE AND ROCKLIFF 1959

THE GIRL OUTSIDE

DAILY HERALD

As a picture of a neurotic youthful underworld a story like Barbara's should have enough material for a picaresque novel plus several TV documentaries

DAILY TELEGRAPH

A raw story-the story of a little girl with an outsize craving for love

the true story of Barbara Marston by Alan Bestic

Undercover Agent-Narcotics - Derek Agnew

"From the secret files of Interpol and from Police records in many countries"

CORGI BOOKS GG965

LONDON, UK

1ST CORGI PRINTING 1961

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY SOUVENIR PRESS 1959

COVER ART BY RICHARDS

THE WHITE STUFF...

heroin, morphine, cocaine

AND THE WEEDS

marijuana, hashish...

These are the narcotics, the killer drugs on which addicts in the United States alone spend more than £100,000,000 every year-with a profit to the traffickers of 10,000 per cent!

UNDERCOVER AGENT-NARCOTICS

tells the thrilling story of a lonely, desperate battle against the operators who sell thrills, stimulants and...death...to their human prey.

WITH 8 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS

Mod Rule - Richard Allen

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 450 04759 8

LONDON, UK

1ST EDITION JULY 1980

COVER PHOTO BY ADRIAN MOTT

LONDON MODS IN HASTINGS RIOT!

'The war started now! A Biker splayed brokenly on the road, his machine wheel-spinning against the kerb. Other Bikers roared their engines and bore down on Joe's crowd. It boiled down to a battle between nutty Bikers and gutsy Mods...'

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.

Four Boys A Girl And A Gun - Willard Weiner

"The story of a street gang in a big city's slum"

AVON BOOKS 292

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1951

SPECIALLY REVISED AND EDITED

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS AS 'FOUR BOYS AND A GUN' 1944

A Vivid and Powerful Picture of Juvenile Delinquency

Johnny Doyle came from Irish immigrants. Benny's folks came from Poland. Tony's parents from Italy. Yet, they were neighbors in the slums of America-side by side with Eddie Richards, of old "American stock." Together they learned that poverty is no respecter of ancestry, that to the brutal and bold belong the rewards-in life and in love-and they patterned their ways after the city jungle's rule of tooth and claw.

Love they took as they found it, money was to be had at pistol point...until blunder and panic pulled the trigger that brought their stark activities into the grim light of a pitiless society. FOUR BOYS, A GIRL AND A GUN is a sensational and dramatic revelation of juvenile delinquency in the "great American melting pot" of the big city slums.