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[--Angelina was born to trouble... and most of it was men.]

[--Joy didn't belong in the hill country... but there she was.]

[--Now here is Charles Williams' River Girl, in every way a giant of a book--the story of a man and a woman who met and knew instantly that not all the world would tear them apart. River Girl, first published in 1951 as "The Catfish Triangle," is a book that shares some similarities with Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice. Down in swamp country a deputy sheriff meets and falls in love with a young lass, but her husband stands in the way... for a time.]

[----In the sleepy southern town, a woman's hatred spread a web of evil.
--"A most ingeniously plotted series of crimes... a fine, ironic, exciting story." Charles Williams - "One of the best of all specialists in paperback-original suspense stories..." NY Sunday Times.
--"Striking suspense technique... bitter blend of sex and criminality... sharp, unmannered prose style." New Times review of "Hell Hath No Fury" by Charles Williams.]

[--Welcome to the roller-coaster world of professional con men - and the one wild beauty who can out-swindle and outwit them all. Utterly beautiful, smart as a whip, here is the most fascinating confidence woman in modern suspense fiction. Her name is Cathy Dunbar - all soft and warm and ready for the taking, until one by one her men find out who is really being taken...
--Was the big blonde a willing victim to the sadist with the whip, or did she hold the key to the Communist spy ring? Johnny had to know. Through a mess of murder, mayhem, lust, and sadism he smashed his way to the Chinese Keyhole, where hell was set to music.]

[--He intruded on a secret that only dead men knew.]

[--The classic suspense novel about a ruthless, amoral woman called Madelon Butler.
--"Charles Williams is just about as good as they come" -Anthony Boucher, The New York Times.
--"Mr. Williams has the narrative knack." New York Herald Tribune review of "A Touch of Death" by Charles Williams]

[--A voyage to violence and rapture... "One of the fastest and hardest hitting books in a long time".
--Off the coast of Yucatan stretches a great coral barrier known as Scorpion Reef. And somewhere along the reef, under 60 feet of water, lies a fabulous treasure in diamonds. It's just waiting for someone who can take it - and return. Beautiful Shannon Macaulay has the only map to the fortune. And Bill Manning is the only man she can trust to help her get it. But unknown to them, a pair of killers is about to turn their treasure hunt into a whirlpool of terror and death.
--"A grand thriller, with tensely shifting suspicion and fine scenes of diving and sailing in the Gulf of Mexico." (The New York Times) ]

[--Two Chicago hoodlums and a beautiful nightclub singer on the run decide to hide out in the bayou country of the deep South, land of moonshine whisky and easy loving. Then Miss Choo-Choo Caroline disappears wearing nothing but a very tiny G-string encrusted with diamonds, and the neighborhood erupts into a fevered search of the woods. Only one thing is certain, and that is that Sagamore Noonan aims to- make himself some big money from the whole scandalous business.
--"Earthy, yes. Bawdy, yes. And a deeply moving book." - Richard S. Prather, creator of Shell Scott]

[--The whole town was the jury, and every time she walked down the street she was on trial]

[--A minutely planned murder with a totally new gimmick... horrifyingly readable. John D. Lindon's]

[--He had to trust the strange girl - or the police or the real killers would shoot him on sight.]

[--The moonshine and those pretty nieces made Uncle Sagamore's still waters run even deeper.]

[--Charles Williams - One of the best of the hewer American writers of tough and intelligent thrillers]

[--A tense, smashing novel by "one of the best of all specialists in...suspense" - the author of Hill Girl and Aground. (NY Sunday Times Book Review)]

[--John and Rae Ingram are alone on their honeymoon yacht in the Pacific, becalmed. It should be idyllic... but it's not. On the near horizon a ship is sinking. They rescue its lone passenger, a young man who claims he buried his wife and another couple, dead from food poisoning. But suspicion gnaws at Ingram, a suspicion only too soon justified. Soon Ingram and his wife are nearly overside with the killer's other victims!
--"A brilliant tour de force. . .breathtaking." (The New York Times)]

[*** In 1967 Orson Welles began directing "The Deep", based on the novel "Dead Calm" by Charles F. Williams and filmed off the shore of Yugoslavia. The cast included Jeanne Moreau, Laurence Harvey and Oja Kodar. Personally financed by Welles and Kodar, they could not obtain the funds to complete the project, and it was abandoned a few years later after the death of Harvey. The surviving footage was eventually edited and released by the Filmmuseum Munchen.]

[*-Nominated for an Edgar in the category of Best Paperback Mystery, 1972.
--A master storyeller's most menacing sea adventure.
--When the S.S. Leonard hauled Harry Goddard out of the freezing waters of the Pacific, he thought his troubles were over--but he was dead wrong. For what appeared to be a cruise ship enroute to the Philippines turned out to be the board on which a lethal game was being played--a game of international intrigue, double deception, and multiple murder, where the stakes were sex and power and the price of one wrong move was certain death.]

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