TV Noir #2: Three Full Novels
(2024)An omnibus of novels by Morton Cooper, March Hastings and Doug J Swanson
Three full novels about crime, sex, betrayal and passion in the world of television....and one BONUS novel.
Come Feed On Me by Morton Cooper
"A brilliant expose of a famous TV comic." Pensacola News-Journal
Joey French is a hugely successful TV star who seems to have everything... money, fame, and women... but it's an illusion. Off-camera, his life is falling apart, his raging, inner-demons threatening his sanity and his soul, while a pack of ravenous star-suckers close in, desperate to take whatever piece of him they can.
Come Feed On Me, published in 1953, was the first of many Fawcett Gold Medal paperbacks Cooper would write...and it's now back in print for the first time in over 70 years.
96 Tears by Doug J. Swanson
Life is never easy for Jack Flippo. The struggling PI is hired by ex-stripper Sherri Plunkett, now a married millionairess, to protect her long-lost daughter Sandra, a lusty starlet with a hit TV show, from a stalker…at the same time that he’s being stalked by two revenge-driven killers himself.
“Swanson has a Carl Hiaasen feel for the black humor of absurdity and an Elmore Leonard way with raunchy, punchy, wry dialogue.” The Times of London
Chico's Women by March Hastings
Millions of women yearned for dashing and dangerously sexy Jonny Chico, the health and beauty expert on TV and radio, who offered advice on better living through diet and exercise, while hiding his secret past as a pimp. He's a fraud and a crook who drives women wild. But his childhood friend Carol knows the truth, and now a chance encounter with him at a swank, Park Avenue party has rekindled a lust that never ebbed in her, even after she got married. She knows Chico is sordid and evil, selfish and craven, but she can't resist his physical charms and honeyed voice. No woman can. He exercises a mysterious, diabolical power over every woman he meets...leaving them helpless to deny him anything. He delights in his sensual power, but if Carol can't control her raging desire, it could destroy her...and everyone in her life.
BONUS BOOK: Ginny by Morton Cooper
Jim Creighton is New York's top television newscaster, a tough journalist known for his probing interviews. But privately, he's stuck in an unhappy marriage, making him the perfect prey for Ginny Grant, a lovely and lethal seductress who gets off on destroying men.
Genre: Mystery
Come Feed On Me by Morton Cooper
"A brilliant expose of a famous TV comic." Pensacola News-Journal
Joey French is a hugely successful TV star who seems to have everything... money, fame, and women... but it's an illusion. Off-camera, his life is falling apart, his raging, inner-demons threatening his sanity and his soul, while a pack of ravenous star-suckers close in, desperate to take whatever piece of him they can.
Come Feed On Me, published in 1953, was the first of many Fawcett Gold Medal paperbacks Cooper would write...and it's now back in print for the first time in over 70 years.
96 Tears by Doug J. Swanson
Life is never easy for Jack Flippo. The struggling PI is hired by ex-stripper Sherri Plunkett, now a married millionairess, to protect her long-lost daughter Sandra, a lusty starlet with a hit TV show, from a stalker…at the same time that he’s being stalked by two revenge-driven killers himself.
“Swanson has a Carl Hiaasen feel for the black humor of absurdity and an Elmore Leonard way with raunchy, punchy, wry dialogue.” The Times of London
Chico's Women by March Hastings
Millions of women yearned for dashing and dangerously sexy Jonny Chico, the health and beauty expert on TV and radio, who offered advice on better living through diet and exercise, while hiding his secret past as a pimp. He's a fraud and a crook who drives women wild. But his childhood friend Carol knows the truth, and now a chance encounter with him at a swank, Park Avenue party has rekindled a lust that never ebbed in her, even after she got married. She knows Chico is sordid and evil, selfish and craven, but she can't resist his physical charms and honeyed voice. No woman can. He exercises a mysterious, diabolical power over every woman he meets...leaving them helpless to deny him anything. He delights in his sensual power, but if Carol can't control her raging desire, it could destroy her...and everyone in her life.
BONUS BOOK: Ginny by Morton Cooper
Jim Creighton is New York's top television newscaster, a tough journalist known for his probing interviews. But privately, he's stuck in an unhappy marriage, making him the perfect prey for Ginny Grant, a lovely and lethal seductress who gets off on destroying men.
Genre: Mystery
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