Elliot Paul - Mayhem in B-Flat
Bantam Books 850, 1950
Cover Artist: Robert Skemp

Rough, Tough and Bawdy
Here is a rip-roaring, free-wheeling murder yarn about a missing violin, a sharpshooting lady pianist, an amateur sleuth, a gang of depraved thugs, a violent artist, a gross of deadly tarantulas, kidnappers, gendarmes, drunkards, degenerates, street fights, waterfront brawls, chorus girls, cocottes, madams and - girls... dozens of them. All winding up in a neck-breaking, glass-shattering, champagne drenched free-for-all in a riverfront dive.

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W.R. Burnett - Romelle
Bantam Books 942, 1951
Cover Artist: Robert Skemp

"A fill-in singer in a third-rate dive."

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Fredric Brown - Compliments of a Fiend
Bantam Books 876, 1951
Cover Artist: Robert Skemp

"He stalked a nameless menace in the Chicago slums."

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Paul Fox - Sailor Town
Bantam Books 813, 1950
Cover Artist: Robert Skemp

"He crammed a lifetime into two nights ashore."

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Jean Pedrick - The Fascination
Bantam Books 477, 1949
Cover Artist: Robert Skemp

"The strange story of a girl on the run."

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