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In attractive Mrs. Baker's beach cottage, the teen-age lifeguard became a man. A bold novel of suburbia's summer game --played by lonesome wives and youthful lovers!

Cover art uncredited.

"Three hot dames from a Middle Western tank-town head for the Big City to find rich husbands who they’d heard grew on trees. With little or no money they hitchhiked into Chicago, and got a ride from a trucker who thought any dame was his for the asking. One night in the cheap hotel in which they registered was enough."

It was one of those motels so common along the turnpikes, but it had its special features. Pretty Vinnie, for instance, who attracted men like Joe Stacy more than their wives did. Naturally he stopped by often. So did couples like Jane and Bruce, both married—but not to each other! On the night the blizzard burst over the highway, all were marooned—and the isolation killed inhibition. A pair of travelers, Virginia and Sally, found themselves sharing a single bed. Lydia Lane was ready to spend the night with anyone. Even Barbara, Joe's beautiful wife, showed up—with another man....

Cover artist is Colin Backhouse.

Henry Mueller had one goal in life - wealth - and with it the fame to satisfy his burning ego. That he had to kill another man to attain it caused no compunction; rather it was a spur to his brilliant but criminal mind. It was Doctor Viktor Bartok's misfortune that in appearance he was the twin of Henry Mueller, for Doctor Bartok was marked for death the day that Henry walked into a Chicago hotel and was mistaken for the wealthy psychiatrist. The spark was kindled here, and it roared into a flame which consumed not only Bartok but several others who came too close to the vicious cruelty of Mueller's unbounded selfishness. But this was neither the end nor the beginning. The beginning lay in the frustrations of Henry's youth, in the inordinate craving for money which turned him from a promising future in medicine and psychology to a career as a "confidence man" and forger, eventually placing him behind the bars of Mohawk Prison...