John Theodore Stratton (1902-1984) wrote many shorts stories and novels, many under pseudonyms (including Chet Kinsey, Thomas Stone, and Terry Spain), while working as a teacher and varsity football coach in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Twenty-five classic pulp-noir novels from the paperback era—hard, fast, and unsentimental. Crime, sex, obsession, and desperation collide in stories that defined the raw edge of mid-century noir fiction. Collected here in one massive, 5000 page volume.
"Shameless Honeymoon" is a brisk, emotionally sharp story of desire, bad decisions, and the moment a young woman stops letting other people steer her life.
Kate wants out—out of her parents’ beatings, out of Newark, out of the gray grind of her teenage life. But freedom comes at a price. Lured by a sleazy truck driver with promises of glamour, she winds up in a rundown motel north of New York—and in the middle of a blackmail and baby-selling racket run by the sinister Mrs. Wembley.
