Blood On My Shadow - A. J. Merak

The Pick-up order was out: Get Johnny Merak, dead or alive . . . .

Publisher: Badger Books 

Number: Mystery Series No. 3

Publishing Year: 1956

Printing: First

Cover Price: 2'-

Cover Artist: Ray Theobald

Introducing

Blood on My Shoulder

by

A. J. MERAK

Johnny Merak was determined to get Maxie Temple, who'd framed him for a three-year-stretch in San Quentin. But the Big Men of the Los Angeles Underworld wanted both Temple and Johnny Merak and decided that by killing Temple they could do both with the same shot.

But Merak wasn't having any of the deal and when Dawn Grahame showed up, he was more than ready to take on the whole of the Organisation. Bit first he had to meet the suspects. the unknown hoodlum who knew too much. Madden who might have been the killer and his girl-friend who had to be fed with heroin to keep her from talking to the wrong people.

Finally there were Clancy Snow and Dutch McKnight, the bosses of the Underworld who sat like black spiders in the web of treachery and vice that made up the Dark Side of Los Angeles.

And at the end of the play, when the chips were down and all the cards on the table. Death stepped in to reap the winnings.

Pablo's Mountain - Albert Johnston

 A BOY EXPLODES INTO MANHOOD IN THIS CLASSIC OF "DEPRAVITY VIEWED THROUGH THE EYES OF INNOCENCE"

Publisher: Award Books

Number: A164 X K

Publishing Year: 1966 (January)

Printing: First

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"Moving . . . Disturbing"

-N.Y. Times

You have just come to New York City looking for a home, a job, and (yes, Miguel would soon admit this to himself) love.

But in El Barrio, the heart of this city, you find only corruption: prostitutes for neighbors, hoodlums for the children to play with. In El Barrio you live with fear by day and violence by night.

This is the background for the book that shocked New Yorkers, and readers across the nation, when it became the fiction "sleeper" of the year. This is story behind New York City's explosive headlines.

"MR. JOHNSTON IS TO BE CONGRATULATED"

-San Francisco Chronicle

Juvenile Hoods - Joseph Shallit

When marijuana means murder!

Publisher: Avon Books

Number: T-170

Publishing Year: 1959

Printing: First

Cover Price: 35c

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Originally published as 'Kiss The Killer'

a rotten racket

narcotics

Some punk is selling marijuana to teen-agers. A heel who ought to be killed.

Someone is - and Dan Morrison is right in the middle of it because . . .

he runs the athletic center where the teen-age addicts hang out

he gets involved with a trio of gals who show him you can't mix murder with a kiss - unless it's a kiss of death.

Scum - Roy Minton

  A NOVEL BASED ON THE TV PLAY BANNED BY THE BBC

Publisher: Arrow Books

Number: 0099192705

Publishing Year: 1979

Printing: First

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BANNED

Rox Minton's controversial television play SCUM was commissioned by the BBC, filmed, advertised, then suddenly withdrawn a short time before it was due to be screened.

The decision to veto caused violent reactions - from those who supported the censorship as well as those who felt outraged by the Establishment's ban.

Now Roy Minton has re-written the plays as a novel: and, for the first time, the public has the chance to make up its own mind.

It is an uncompromising, often shocking and outspoken comment on the bleak, brutal world of a Borstal: a powerful story that tells the truth about the boys labelled 'Scum' - and the men they call 'Screws'!

A Major film of SCUM is planned for the near future.

D for Delinquent - Bud Clifton

 SHE WAS STRICTLY FOR THE BOYS

Publisher: Ace Books

Number: D-270

Publishing Year: 1958

Printing: First

Cover Price: 35c

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THE JAIL-BAIT AGE

What with petty thievery and wild marijuana parties, there had been enough problems for the faculty at Seacliff High before the girl named Gloria arrived. She was sixteen, she was sexy, and she spelled trouble.

For Gloria was a teen-ager with an adult past. The things that were still considered daring to the local gangs and that shocked teachers in Seacliff were kid stuff this brassy little teaser.

So when Gloria displayed her special talents around the school and after hours, it started a new kind of an extra-curricular rumble that grew into a volcanic eruption which overran Seacliff.

Tuck's Girl - Marcel Wallenstein

THE VIOLENT STORY OF A REFORMATORY GIRL AND HER HOPELESS PASSION FOR A HARDENED YOUNG CRIMINAL

Publisher: Ace Books

Number: H 319

Publishing Year: 1960

Printing: First

Cover Price: 2/6

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TUCK

A savage crook in jail for robbery with murder

HIS GIRL

Anna, a reformatory girl, runaway from bad home, dominated by her fierce longing for a love which is now only a bitter memory

THE STORY

Anna is told that two hundred dollars will ensure Tuck's parole. She commits murder to get it, then takes to the road with the half-breed Indian who has helped with the crime, and is timidly in love with her. She has no regard for the half-breed, but uses him cruelly to protect herself, following a path of deception and cunning until her final disillusionment.

Tuck's Girl is a remarkable story of the lengths to which a woman will go when a rememembered love is all that she lives for

The Blackboard Jungle - Evan Hunter

The frightening best-seller of America's teenage hoodlums that scorches with emotional shocks

Publisher: Panther Books

Number: 685

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: Thirteenth

Cover Price: 3'6

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This edition has new cover art

A NOVEL THAT HAS BECOME A CLASSIC OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION

A story that savagely exposes a burning problem

"He saw West's fists doubled and hard, saw the animal look that had come on Belazi's face, and again the knife, threatening and sharp. . .The noise grew louder and Rick grasped in his mind for a picture of the Roman arena, tried to to rise, felt pain sear through his right arm. . .He's cut me, he thought with panic. Belazi has cut me. . .THIS IS IT. . .THIS IS REALLY IT."

' I can assure you Spare The Rod is as nothing compared with the description of life in a similar New York school given in The Blackboard Jungle'.

- DAVID HOLLOWAY