Artists, Models and Murder
Tedd Steele
Toronto: News Stand Library, 1948
141 pages
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ReplyDeleteNot to give anything away, but... More anon.
DeleteWhat a cover. And 1948!
ReplyDeleteRemarkable, is it not? Doubly so when placed next to the other News Stand Library title that month George Victor Martin's Mark It With a Stone. Just as naughty - and I think that's the same woman.
DeleteLook to your contemporaneous pulps...and not a few paperbacks. Part of why "Paperback Writer" could be a concept for the Beatles two decades later...and why it drives me up a wall when would-be hipsters try to conflate pulps and paperbacks, when pbs were quite capable of getting a bad rap from bluenoses all on their seedy own...
DeleteI have a copy of this book - i.e. Artists Models and Murder, by Tedd Steele, Toronto: export Publishing enterprises, 1946 - in nice condition, with cover art depicting a red-haired nude woman in a picture or mirror frame. Jim Anderson Books, Winnipeg
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