Viper - Raymond Thorp

THE TRUE AND TERRIFYING STORY OF A DRUG ADDICT

WDL BOOKS T.S.891

FIRST PRINTING 1960

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ROBERT HALE 1956

The Confessions of a Drug Addict

For the first time in this country since de Quincey, a drug addict has written his astounding confessions; a documentary that horrifies yet compels the reader to walk with Thorp into the half-light of London's drug world.

The author, a young clerk from suburbia, haunts the jazz clubs of Soho and finally begins to smoke Indian hemp - or marijuana. It is the first step on the road to prison and to a living death. Soon he is a "pusher" - agent for a drug ring selling hemp and heroin. He tells how London's two big dealers obtain their supplies, how they are distributed and where they are sold. Thorp holds nothing back. He writes of clubs and cafes where addicts gathered until Scotland Yard's vice squad, by raiding them, split up the gatherings. At one time he is living in a luxury flat, bought from the proceeds of illegal sales, but slowly he begins to slide to degradation.

Speed Freaks - Peter Cave

To the Angels, class means speed

Publisher: New English Library (NEL)

Number: 450 02632 9

Publishing Year: March 1975

Printing: New Edition (Second)

Cover Price: 35p

Filming the Angel's life is different and more difficult than filming a pop festival. But Gerry Shipton manages to persuade his backers that this film will hit. But only as long as he includes other speeding thrills.

The speedway, the Wall of Death, open up new grounds for the Hell's Angels to show off their daredevil skills, prove their reckless courage. Dreams of stardom and the silver screen are new expeditions for them. So Gerry finds that things get out of control. Everything they touch turns sour; their mark of destruction.

Another great Hell's Angel story from Peter Cave, that is just too close to the truth to be ignored.

 

Pick - Up Girl - Roland Vane

She liked her men tough

Publisher: The Leisure Library

Number: 3

Publishing Year: 1952

Printing: First

Cover Price: 35c

Cover Artist: Reginald Heade

PICK - UP GIRL

Juvenile delinquency - especially where it concerns young girls who fall all too easily for the lure of a good time - has caused much public concern of late, and Roland Vane has chosen this subject as the theme for this thrilling true-to-life novel which will add to his already established reputation as a daring and realistic writer of present-day life.

Taking as his central character an impressionable young girl, seeking for an escape from her uneventful life, he tells how she takes the first step which places her virtue in jeopardy.

Her first timid approaches to the life of a gold-digger eventually embroil her in a web of circumstances that lead her deeper and deeper into a mire of deceit and disillusion until the final dramatic denoument. this tale is told with all the verve, skill and craftsmanship for which the author is justly famous.

Here is a story which every parent - should be sure to read.

Girl Gangs! - Men's Adventure Quarterly No. 7 - Robert Deis & Bill Cunningham

Publisher: Subtropic Productions

Number: 979-8375110202

Publishing Year: 2023

Cover Artist: Samson Pollen

Young Women Driven To Crime To Satisfy Their Wanton Desires!

Whether they were called Juvenile Delinquents (or JDs), Gun Molls, Prison Brides, Motorcycle Mamas, or Hot Rod Honeys, they were all “Gang Girls” and the tough-as-nails subject of this issue of MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY.

In post World War II America, teens were pushing the boundaries of what was considered acceptable behavior, and causing major concern amongst parents and the government. The Kefauver Commission in Congress held hearings to discover the root causes of juvenile delinquency, but this “problem” wasn’t only in America, as Teens around the globe pushed their boundaries. Of course, the men’s adventure magazines, paperbacks, and B-movies all saw yet another genre of crime, violence and sex to exploit for their hungry audiences. MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY takes on the Gang Girl genre in all its forms giving you a peek at the evolution of female outlaws in a variety of media who live beyond the polite boundaries of society. Joining us in this expose’ of female crime are retromedia expert Jules Burt, and pulp culture author Andrew Nette both of whom provide a comprehensive perspective on Gang Girls from the UK and the AU.

Get ready to enjoy the best in Gang Girl stories and articles ripped from the headlines and the pages of men’s adventure magazines.

Jailbait Street - Hal Ellson

TOUGH KIDS ON A TOUGH STREET, BRED WITH HATRED AND VIOLENCE

Publisher: Priory Books

Number: 1078

Publishing Year: No Date (1970s)

Printing: First

Cover Price: 25p

Cover Artist:

JAILBAIT STREET

Running wild from darkness till dawn - snatching at love in deserted alleys or lonely rooftops - today's tough juvenile punks have turned our city streets into asphalt jungles of terror and lawlessness.

This is the savagely realistic story of a teen-age gang - the Sultans - and their mixed-up leader, Silkie Meegan, whose desperate search for manhood drove him into frenzied excesses of violence and vice. . .

From the vengeance beating with bicycle chains of a rival gang. . .to the degraded sharing of sweet virginal Carol with the rest of his gang. And finally to the fateful family feud with his own father over Charlotte - his father's prostitute mistress - who first taught Silkie her own kind of Jailbait Street love, then hired him to dig up new "business" for her.

Street Of The Lost - David Goodis

RUXTON STREET WAS UGLY, VIOLENT AND MISERABLE, BUT IT HELD THEM, AS IF THEY WORE CHAINS

Publisher: Priory Books

Number: 1073

Publishing Year: No Date (1970s)

Printing: First

Cover Price: 25p

Cover Artist:

STREET OF THE LOST

THIS IS RUXTON STREET

Fat, soiled Hagen rules this street of prostitutes, workers, dope-pushers - and lost souls.

Yet people love and live on Ruxton, as they do on any back street in your own home town.

A powerful new novel by DAVID GOODIS, author of CASSIDY'S GIRL and DOWN THERE.

Back Alley Jungle - Leo Margulies

Publisher: Gold Medal Books (Frederic Muller Ltd)

Number: 631

Publishing Year: 1963

Printing: First (A Gold Medal Original)

Cover Price: 4'-

Cover Artist:

back alley jungle

TALES OF TODAY'S TERROR

They will shock you,

they will anger you,

they will make you wonder

...and they will scare

the hell out of you!

Read these devastating stories 

of teen-age hoods and tramps

who infest our streets

and schools, terrorize out towns

and turn our cities into a 

back alley jungle