Basement Gang - David Williams

A DARING NOVEL OF REEFER SMOKE - RECKLESS THRILLS - AND THE WILD LOVE OF BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE CITY STREETS

INTIMATE NOVELS NO.32

DESIGNS PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING 1953

this 

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Seven steps descended from the sidewalk to the cellar club. They led lovely young Kathie Melton out of the innocence of her teens into the guilt and viciousness of a precociously sinful world!

Kathie knew the cellar gang was a little wild. She joined, just the same - chiefly to show Hank Landrum she was tired of his idea of an exciting Saturday night. What she didn't know was that the cellar crowd were fond of vile amusements and up to their neck in the rackets.

The excitement really started when Hank, out of longing for her, tried to pull her from the gang. Its jittery members decided to take care of both Hank and Kathie...

A frank, daring novel of teen-age life in a Bronx slum! Here are intimately revealed the desperate secrets of youth caught in the tails of poverty, seeking escape through vice and violence!

Queen Street - Matthew Gant

Blood Sealed Their Oath...Was Blood Their Only Destiny?

MATTHEW GANT'S hell-raising novel of slum vengeance and innocent sinners

REGENCY BOOKS RB 315

EVANSTON, IL, USA

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL - FIRST PRINTING 1963

COVER ART BY DILLON

THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST STREET

There are many candidates for the title - and half of them are crammed into a small section of New York City's Upper West Side

It's a section that has seen the dregs of inhumanity - the toughs and the touts, the addicts and the pushers, the brutes and the brutalized - seen them come and go, kill and be killed, without turning a hair

It has seen the gangs - hoodlum gangs, criminal gangs, teen-age delinquent gangs

And now the deadliest, most sinful gang of all

THE QUEENS

The little girls who should play with dolls, and do play with dope, sex and switchblades - the girls who obey no rules but their own warped code of hatred for the world and a seething desire to spit in its face - the girls who long for kicks, search for violence and plot their rumbles...

WHILE THE CITY SHUDDERS!

Don't Cry For Me - William Campbell Gault

BOARDMAN BOOKS 143

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1954

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1952

COVER ART BY McLOUGHLIN

Illicit drug traffic, beautiful and young addicts, underworld characters and race-track touts are amongst the characters Pete Worden finds himself dealing with in the course of his highly disorganized and far from conventional life.

When Pete finds the dead body of Al Calvano, obviously placed as a plant in Pete's apartment, he decides to lay off his more ordinary daily chores of following the horses, and other allied activities, to do a little investigating of the quality of the company he keeps. What he discovers would make anybody lay off for good.

Pete's extremely staunch girl friend stands by through thick and thin, hoping to marry him but receiving little encouragement. Things like that are hard on a girl, but Ellen is resourceful.

DON'T CRY FOR ME, a hard-boiled, rough, tough mystery story, introduces a new writer who shows every sign of being a winner.

The Juvies - Harlan Ellison

Life and Death of the Gutter Kids

ACE D-513

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING 1961

KICK WHEN HE'S DOWN!

AIM FOR THE GROIN!

STOMP OR BE STOMPED!

These are the rules for survival in a kid gang. These are the rules that I lived by when I ran with a gang myself, trying to find out what makes a JD tick. And let me tell you these kids aren't playing games. These are junior-grade killers!

I've pulled no punches in THE JUVIES either. I've painted these kids as they really are, in sharp black and white (and very often in blood red). Stark and stinking, and intended to scare the hell out of you.

Nine O'Clock Shadow - Jack Trevor Story

An innocent man condemned to death...can Sexton Blake beat the clock?

SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 407

FIRST PRINTING JUNE 1958

AMALGAMATED PRESS LONDON, UK

COVER ART BY DE SETA

SKETCHES FOR NOVEL BY ERIC PARKER

Harry Jukes was a rock'n roll Romeo, a coffee bar lizard - but was he a cop-killer

Espresso Jungle - W. Howard Baker

SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY No. 435

FLEETWAY PUBLICATIONS LTD 

FIRST PRINTING SEPTEMBER 1959

COVER ART BY SYMEONI AND MARC STONE

SKETCHES FOR NOVEL BY MARGARET HIGGINS

in an espresso cellar-club in Soho the Beat Generation hoodlums planned violence and terror

Too Late To Mend - Thomas Rainham

A story of teenage thuggery in London's East End

ARROW BOOKS 502

FIRST ARROW EDITION 1958

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HURST & BLACKETT LTD 1957

Smithy was a young thug who absorbed every bad influence and rejected every good one; at his school in London's East End he was in a special class for 'incorrigibles'-a class of hoodlums as ignorant and vicious as himself. When he leaves at fifteen, his sinister values are already formed. All he wants is easy money to spend on clothes and girls. From petty theft and fraud he graduates to robbery with violence; then, on the eve of his seventeenth birthday, comes disaster-he is involved in murder! Here is the horrifying story of young gangsters told with superb skill and deep feeling; you may dislike Smithy, but you will certainly not forget him.