Tale of strange and exotic love.

From out where the pale emotions of civilization are lashed into fury by primitive passions, come this tale of weird abandon and exotic love.

This fascinating story of unconventional love by John MacDonald round out this collection of great stories by truly great writers.

It seemed utterly senseless, that accident which made superfolk out of the folk on the bus — but was there a larger pattern behind it?

Morrow was not afraid of death. He was afraid of women. Too many of them wanted too much of him. And he was only one man.

There was Barbara, who for a price became his bedroom alibi.

There was young, tempestuous Jake, who wanted him at any cost.

There was married Felice, who paid too much for what she got.

In this emotion-packed novel, John D. MacDonald, distinguished author of the brass cupcake and MURDER FOR THE BRIDE, takes you into a whirlpool of crime, passion and revenge.

I’m a card cop. I can spot a shark’s trick after one hand... then I ran into ordinary citizen Carl Breton. With him I had to first meet his wife.

One glimpse of her and he knew his life would never be the same again.

The good Dr. Vrees, that best-intentioned of psychiatrists, had an unfortunate experience in the nighttime. It was a sad blow to his ego but he could console himself with the surety that he, even more than Dr. Freud, knew precisely the “stuff that dreams are made on.”

When the season died out to just one more down — one more play — ten guys put their chips on a back field clown who won with a grin, lost with a laugh — and fought for eleven men’s dreams!

“All I can say is, if this should be the world’s and, it’s a real black color...”

She was born with the morality gene missing. As beautiful, as inviting, as treacherous as the sea around her, Linda is one of the most compelling women yet created by John D. MacDonald.

Stoney Wotnack was a tough city kid on his first visit to the country. He taught the Baker family that chivalry can take strange and violent forms.

A has-been with a prayer... a fresh kid with a birdie... and magic on the eighteenth — the green where champions are made!

Or, what is one little bride against so many dropper-inners?

Hunting strange game in his underwater jungle, Pierson knew the terrible odds against himself — and ignored them.

This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers!

For the first and last time, he was up there on the lightning green, where some have a prayer — some have a putt — and some, unbelieving, snatch greatness from another man’s victory!

It took more than a beautiful girl to sweep George off his feet. It took a pair of skis.

Two years after his celebrated collection The Good Old Stuff, John D. MacDonald treats us to fourteen more of his best early stories!

In short, here is one of America’s most gifted and prolific storytellers at his early best — a marvelously entertaining collection that will delight Mr. MacDonald’s hundreds of thousands of devoted readers.