SOMETHING IN THE SHADOWSIt begins on an upstate country road. Joseph Meaker is following a Mercedes-Benz on his way home when the driver ahead of him swerves suddenly and runs over something in the road. Curious, Joseph stops--and finds his treasured cat, Ishmael, dying in the road. Grief-stricken, all he can ask himself is what kind of person would drive over an animal like this. He tracks the Mercedes to his neighbors, Dr. Louis Hart and his wife Janice. Joseph's wife, Maggie, thinks he should confront the doctor and be done with it. But that isn't Joseph's way. Joseph doesn't intend to get over it—he intends to get even.INTIMATE VICTIMSRobert Bowser had embezzled exactly $100,043.77. He had written the farewell note to his wife and was ready to escape down to Brazil. Unfortunately, young social-wannabe Harvey Plangman finds the note. Plangman had always wanted to be rich, to be accepted into the moneyed world. He saw his chance, and blackmailed Bowser into trading places with him. Bowser moves into Plangman's small campus rooming house, while Plangman settles into an upscale New York apartment. It was the perfect switch—Bowser found himself enjoying the freedom of his new surroundings, and Plangman worked hard at ingratiating himself into his new world. It almost worked.

Something in the Shadows; Intimate Victims

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Packer, Vin

Mystery

Stark House Press

Suspense Classics. DAMNATION: All Adam wants is to be respected--whatever it takes. ALONE: Slater Burr has gotten away with murder--or has he?

The Damnation of Adam Blessing / Alone at Night (Stark House Suspense Classics)

It is the story of the strange, private world built by a man of many faces and as many distorted passions, and of the women who dared enter that world.

The DAMNATION OF ADAM BLESSING

Adams Media

There were two Charlie GibsonsOne rode the 5:45 to Westport and was met at the station by his charming wife who dressed in impeccable tweeds and mixed a wicked martini. He also had a long-legged, lovely daughter whom he admired. He was second in command of a vast publishing house and, what’s more, he got there without being a hatchet man. Everybody had respect for him; almost everybody liked him.That was one side of Charlie Gibson.The unhappy side.One spent every spare minute in the apartment of Marge Mann. She was beautiful and flamboyant and she loved Charlie with passion. It was she who gave him the ideas that took him to the top of the publishing world - although Charlie never realized it. Every minute he spent with her was like being under the influence of a strong drug. He was addicted to Marge and didn’t want to break the habit.That was the other side of Charlie Gibson.The happy side.

5:45 To Suburbia

Joseph Meaker was a shy, dedicated scholar. To his brash wife, Maggie, and her advertising friends, he was a cipher, easily dismissed. But behind his gentle façade he carried the seeds of violence, subtle and understated. Until the day his pet cat was accidentally killed by a neighbor’s car.Joseph’s desire for revenge became an obsession that could only be satisfied by a ''punishment'' so gruesome it makes the skin crawl.

Something In The Shadows

The book that damned an entire townFERN FULTON: "I'm the only friend Gloria Wealdon has in this town. How could she write those dreadful things about me and my husband and our daughter" VIRGINIA FULTON, age 15: "Mrs Wealdon's a stinker and I'd like to murder her and write a sequel to her book. I'd call it Population 12,359" DR. JAY MANNERHEIM, psychologist: "Gloria Wealdon has simply touched off unpleasantries that in many cases would have exploded sooner or later anyway" MILO WEALDON: "I never realized my wife had such contempt, such loathing for me until I read her book" MIN STEWART: "My family has been here for generations. I consider Gloria Wealdon so vulgar as to be quite beneath contempt" GLORIA WEALDON: "The hell with everybody in this snotty town. They made my life miserable. Now we're even"

Girl on the Best Seller List

Prologue Books

Her silky black hair. Her low-cut gown. Her sparkling sorority pin. It's autumn rush in the Tri Epsilon house, and the new pledge, Susan Mitchell--"Mitch" to her friends--trembles as the fastest girl on campus, the lovely Leda Taylor, crosses the room toward her for a dance. Will Leda corrupt Mitch? Or will the strong and silent Mitch draw the queen of Tri Ep into the forbidden world of Lesbian Love? Spring Fire was the first lesbian paperback novel and sold an amazing 1.5 million copies when it first appeared in 1952. It launched an entire genre of lesbian novels, as well as the writing career of Vin Packer, one of the pseudonyms of prolific author Marijane Meaker, whose acclaimed memoir, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s, told the story of her own forbidden love. Now available after forty years out of print, Spring Fire is both a vital part of lesbian history and a steamy page-turner.

Spring Fire (Lesbian Pulp Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Cleis Press

WHISPER HIS SIN When Ferris Sullivan first meets Paul Lasher at Jackson University, he hates him. Sullivan isn't like the other young men—hadn't his mother reminded him often enough? He needs his privacy. But Lasher, the senior in charge of the dorm, assigns him a room with two others, and keeps the private room for himself. Still, Lasher takes a liking to the stand-offish Sullivan, and a gradual if begrudging friendship develops. During a break, they take a trip to New York together, where Lasher introduces Sullivan to a few of his flamboyant friends. Lasher has never considered himself gay—after all, he has a girlfriend, doesn't he?—but that weekend he falls in love with young Sullivan. They begin to make plans together. If only Sullivan's mother hadn't found out it. Horrified, she threatened to expose them. What they need is an escape plan. Leave it to Lasher to come up with the perfect solution. THE EVIL FRIENDSHIP Mary Drew Edlin had never had any friends. When her family moves to Weerdale, Mary Drew enters Chillam, an expensive girls' boarding school. There she meets a kindred spirit, the beautiful, dark-haired Martha Kent. They have so much in common. They begin to make up stories and characters together, creating an active fantasy life. But popular Evelyn Rush wants Martha for her own special friend, and when Martha rejects her advances, she stirs up some very serious trouble. All Mary Drew and Martha want is to be left alone. If only it were that simple. Because the closer they are drawn together, the more everyone seems to be against them--particularly Mary Drew's fretful mother. There is nothing they can do about Rush…but Mrs. Edlin is another matter entirely.

Whisper His Sin / The Evil Friendship

Breen, Jon L.

Contemporary

THE GIRL ON THE BEST SELLER LIST Gloria Whealdon resents them all, the whole town full of snooty hypocrites and self-righteous bores. She resents her husband Milo the most, the way he is always excusing her unsophistications to everyone. And then there’s her contemptible neighbors, Fern and Freddy Fulton, and their ugly daughter, Virginia. And Jay Mannerheim, so smug in his pretense of being a doctor when everyone knows he’s only a psychologist. And Min Stewart, always looking down on her as if she owned the town. Gloria hates them until she can’t keep it in any longer. So she writes a novel, and exposes all their weaknesses, all their secrets. Population 12,360 is her revenge, and it becomes a best seller. Now the feeling is mutual—Gloria becomes a sensation, the town pariah. Is it any surprise that someone might want to get even?

The Girl on the Best Seller List (Black Gat Books)

Humor & Satire

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