A hand reaching out of the dark past had killed Margaret Hadley, and the only way I would ever find her killer — was to be the next to die!

The slender bookshelf of outstanding works about sexual deviations must now make room for Fletcher Flora’s honest and perceptive novel, Strange Sisters.

Here is the story of a lesbian, and of the devastating crime to which she was driven when she tried to disavow her body’s urgings. Here is a shattering theme, treated with rare sensitivity and power.

An unconventional story of beautiful Ivy Galvin and her strange emotional involvement with two men — and a woman.

She was everything, and most of all she was the earth’s most tempting woman in a way that was peculiarly her own... but I could hear her rich, provocative voice saying softly that everything would be so very simple if only the man named Kirby would die... and as that summer grew, in desire and in terror, my world no longer had the familiar features of a fine and comforting thing, but the strange remnants of an ugly, threatened place...

...and the root of it all lay hidden in the secret of THE BRASS BED.

Police Captain Bartholdi sometimes indulged himself in a harmless fantasy. His thoughts, he would imagine, were irresponsible imps that wriggled out of his head and scampered around with an abandon that was often embarrassing.

A woman had been kidnapped. That woman was dead.

Bartholdi was convinced that a murderer was at that moment having a grim laugh at his expense. He knew who the murderer was. He would have bet his pension and his sacred soul that he knew. But he could not, knowing, prove what he knew. He needed confirmation on one critical point.

From among his antic imps he culled the three that had directed his mind to its present state:

One newspaper too many.

A girl who slept too soundly.

And, most important of all, a ragout with too many onions.

Skimmer was the hotshot — handsome, smart, arrogant...

He had everything: personality, looks, women. He was ready for success — regardless of the cost...

And then he met a girl and a gangster — and something went wrong...

Hotshot is Skimmer’s story — a unique candid portrait, not of the knife-wielding delinquents who capture headlines, but of today’s troubled youth as they really are.

The unforgettable story of a generation battling to find its way in a world it never made.

Colleen was the mistress of the house, beautiful, rich and romantic, with the lush, pliant body of an overly passionate woman, and a husband who didn’t appreciate her obvious charms.

Onofre was the newly hired handyman, sullen, opportunistic and blatantly virile — like a stud bull that accepts all comers.

Pansy, the maid, got the message at once and offered herself without reservations. Vesta, the housekeeper, fought her attraction for him and continued making passes at Colleen.

Colleen, torn between pressure from Vesta, loyalty to her husband and her desperate need for Onofre, resisted, wavered, then fell like a ripe plum into Onofre’s bed.

How can you all sit there, Deming’s nerves screamed, playing poker as if you cared? Any minute, any hour, a man will walk into a trap — a man that we must kill!

There are three men in Donna Buchanan’s life...

ENOS SIMON — a moody and emotional young teacher

AARON BURNS — the considerate and shy husband of a cold and calculating wife

WILLIAM WALTER TYLER — a middle-aged millionaire who always gets what he wants

...Three lovers woo the ambitious young dress designer who’s determined to sell her talent and her love to the highest bidder in order to crash the world of fashion.