TALES OF THE DEEP SOUTH #4: FOUR COMPLETE NOVELS
Four powerful, controversial, highly acclaimed novels set in the Deep South during the 1950s and early 1960s. These bold, provocative stories confront politics, race, crime, and sex head-on, capturing a turbulent era with honesty and force. All four novels are back in print for the first time in over sixty years—and collected together for the first time ever in one massive ebook.
KING COBRA – Ward Greene
First published in 1940 under the pseudonym “Frank Dudley,” this blistering novel of intolerance and hate was called by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram “probably the most shameless and shaming book that has ever been written in America.” A young newspaper reporter uncovers the rise of a secret racist organization whose greed and violence propel it to national prominence—before ending in lurid, fiery collapse.
THE SPRINGS – Anne Goodwin Winslow
Described by the Hartford Courant as “a thing of loveliness, fresh, alive, and with a faint glow,” this long-out-of-print novel follows a sheltered young woman in a small Tennessee town transformed by the arrival of a resort hotel, as romance, scandal, and sudden violence reshape her understanding of the world.
WIND SPRINTS – Ralph Dennis
The never-before-published autobiographical first novel by the creator of the Hardman series, tracing a struggling writer’s unraveling in the academic South of the late 1960s. CrimeTimeUK FM calls it “an uncomfortable read, but also a poignant one… clear signs of the style that made his later novels crime classics.”
THUNDERCLAP – Jack Sheridan
A raw, naturalistic Texas novel praised by Larry McMurtry. Set in the unforgiving Texas Panhandle, it follows Britt’s obsession with Marcy, a young woman trapped in a brutal marriage, as rival men collide in a struggle fueled by lust, cruelty, and survival. The New York World-Telegram hailed it as “a great novel… authentic, moving and revealing,” while the Wichita Falls Times called it “a love story with a realistic background of lusty talk, strong emotions, and the fight of farmers to survive and prosper.”
Anne Goodwin Winslow, Jack Sheridan, Ralph Dennis, Ward Greene /
Anthologies, Historical, Literary Fiction, Sexy Fiction
