Nightmare Street - Hal Ellson

The big, brutal story of a nightmare world where passion is a pastime and pain a pleasure

Publisher: Belmont Books

Number: 9o-316

Publishing Year: 1964

Printing: First

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"SHOCKING"

is what the Saturday Review has said of Hal Ellson's writing

"FASCINATING"

is what the New York Herald Tribune said of Hal Ellson's smash bestseller, DUKE

TREMENDOUS

is what they'll say about NIGHTMARE STREET, the story of a man who looked for the easy life, only to find that he'd made a pact with a diabolical, deadly stranger who led him into a life of sex, sin and sadism - a life of torture and torment from which there was no escape.

Hot Rod - Henry Gregor Felsen

Speed. . .Danger. . .DEATH!

Publisher: Bantam Books

Number: 923

Publishing Year: 1951

Printing: First

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WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAY OF THIS MNOVEL:

". . .PUNCH, DRAMA, SUSPENSE, SWIFT ACTION, SHREWD CHARACTERIZATION. . ."

-Dallas TIMES

"Full of thrills and excitement, hard to put down. . ."

-Wichita EAGLE

"DRAMA-PACKED, PLENTY OF SUSPENSE. . ."

-Montgomery (Ala.) ADVERTISER

All The Way Down - Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum

THE VIOLENT UNDERWORLD OF STREET GANGS

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Number: F 712

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 50c

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ALL THE WAY DOWN

is the story of five years spent in the vicious, appalling underworld of the juvenile street gangs. Vincent Riccio, ex-boxer with an M.A. degree from Columbia, was a street worker with the New York City Youth Board. The life he describes makes "West Side Story" sound like a kindergarten fairy tale.

This is the brutal, unadorned truth about a world where rival gangs fight "wars" with tire-chains, knives and guns; where the teen-age date is replaced by mass rape in the back seat of a stolen car; where murder is a status symbol and kids of 14 are hopelessly hooked on dope.

"Juvenile delinquency is going to be unbeatable in ten years," the Attorney General of the United States said recently. Vincent Riccio writes bitterly: "I hope it's not unbeatable now."

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.