Rebels In The Streets - Kitty Hanson

The Story of New York's Girl Gangs

A dramatic expose of one of the most shocking and least publicized problems of the big cities

HORWITZ PUBLICATIONS PB 228

1ST PRINTING 1965

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Here is a strange and savage story of the Dagger Debs, a girl gang. Girls between childhood misbehavior and adult crime. Girls who get drunk on cheap wine and high marijuana. Girls who are profane, sexually promiscuous, aggressive and anti-social. Here is their gripping, shocking story. A piercing social document, it will hold you in profound fascination and utter disbelief.

Written by the author of award-winning "I Lived with a Teen-Gang," a series which appeared in the New York Daily News, REBELS IN THE STREETS is a compelling narrative, a truthful, moving portrait of the violence that courses through a great city, of those who try and stop it, and of the lives it touches and tears. It is a true story. Names and neighborhoods have been changed, but the people are real, the events are true.

The Blackboard Jungle - Evan Hunter

PANTHER BOOKS 685

2ND PRINTING 1957 (1ST PRINTING ALSO 1957)

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY CONSTABLE & CO 1955

COVER ART BY WEBB

MOVIE TIE-IN

West stood an inch shorter than Rick, squirming to release himself.

Rick's hand crushed tighter on the collar. He peered into the hateful eyes and spoke quietly. "Pronounce my name correctly, West."

The Class had grown terribly quiet.

"You want me to pronounce your name, sir?" West asked politely.

"You heard me."

"- you, Mr. Daffy..."

Rick's hand lashed out, slapping West squarely across the mouth....And then the knife snapped into view, sudden and terrifying. Long and shining, it caught the pale sunlight that slanted through the long schoolroom windows.

The Hours After Midnight - Joseph Hayes

A story of terror tuned to the relentless ticking of the clock

PAN BOOKS G458

1ST PRINTING 1961

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANDRE DEUTSCH 1959

COVER ART BY "PEFF"

2.13 a.m....

'She's a pretty doll, Mr. Elgin.

You don't want nothing to happen to her...'

Then the phone went dead.

This new Joseph Hayes thriller races on with ever-mounting tension through minutes and hours of a single night. Flashing from parents tortured by fear for their daughter, to the girl herself alone with a devil obsessed, this is a novel of almost unbearable suspense.

Hot-Rod Babe - Tom Haunt

THEY LOVED FAST CARS- AND FAST FEMALES

GASLIGHT BOOKS 124

1ST PRINTING 1964

NEW YORK, USA

FORBIDDEN THRILLS.....

All Eric wanted was a car to tinker with, and a pretty bride to take care of his love life...But love and life got very complicated when he got tangled up with the Fender Busters, a gang of depraved delinquents addicted to hot-rods and hot women...Among the complications was Eric's relationship with girls like...Mae, who as the result of a frame-up set out to prove that she was truly a woman by accepting all male comers...Jayne, the sultry poor little rich girl with a yen for fast cars, violent men and pretty females, in equal proportions...Ruthie, the not-so-simple farm girl who was Jayne's avid partner in the twilight zone of sex...Lollie, who looked like a pert Junior miss but behaved like an insatiable nymph...and last but not least, lovely red-headed Ann Steel, who modelled panties and bras for a living, raced stock cars as a hobby...All these, and others, were the basic ingredients in a seething volcano of

.....FORBIDDEN LOVE

Thumb Tripping - Don Mitchell

A dazzling novel of the American Road in the tradition of Jack Kerouac and Easy Rider

PANTHER BOOKS 586 03687 3

1st PRINTING 1972

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1971

A Road Odyssey

California. Summer. A young man and a beautiful girl, hitch-hiking along the coast. A time of sunshine, sleeping out in a shared sleeping bag, making love in the open air. A time to get high - on scenery, on each other, on pot. But sometimes things get out of hand. A lift from a queer warlock becomes an excruciating experience of sexual embarrassment...a burly truck driver out of his skull on speed gets horny for the girl...a lift from a clean-living all-American family turns into a nightmare alcoholic binge...and that's not all. Not by a long way....

Funny and terrifying by turns, Don Mitchell's award-winning novel (soon to be a major movie) is one of the most entertaining and thoughtful pieces of writing to come out of the new youth scene.

Drummer - Richard Carlile

Brilliant and thought-provoking: a hallucinatory trip into a savage, amoral, rock-horror nightmare

TANDEM BOOKS 426 13231 9

1st PRINTING 1971

LONDON, UK

A wild, neon-lit, stereophonic experience, too out-of-this-world to be fact, too true to life to be fiction.

...at the first moment of their appearance in the stadium the screaming of the fans swelled to a chaos of sound. Malk held up his arms and appealed for quiet, shouting into his mike in a futile attempt to make himself heard. He gave a shrug and turned to the others.

Okay, here we go. A-four, a-three. a-two, a-one! 

They launched into the act. No one heard them. Like figures in a silent movie they plucked their guitars, mouthed and gaped, stamped, shook, gesticulated. The pace grew wilder and wilder and when Sonny smashed his instrument to pieces and hurled away the bits, began to tear off his clothes and scratch his face, the audience took it all as part of the performance. They smelled blood, and howled for more...

Rule Of Night - Trevor Hoyle

Kenny is savage, sensitive, menacing and unpredictable. This is his story - a haunting novel of teenage violence, crime and kicks.

FUTURA BOOKS 0 8600 7175 8

1st PRINTING 1975

LONDON, UK

Kenny Seddon exists. He's as real as you are. This documentary novel explores the sub-world of teenage violence in the northern town of Rochdale - with real people, true events, and disturbing consequences. Only the names have been changed to mask the identities of Kenny and his gang.

You see them any day of the week, hanging round street corners, telling dirty jokes, kicking in bus shelter windows (and sometimes peoples's faces). Charging across football pitches to grapple with rival fans. You read about his kind in books, see him portrayed in films and on television.

But in Rule of Night you're not reading fiction - but fact. Trevor Hoyle spent four months researching the background to this book. He toured the pubs, stood on the terraces, talked to the parents, and through notes and tape-recordings has reconstructed a documented case-history which tries to answer the one question that seems to baffle everybody - what makes Kenny tick?