Six noir masterpieces from the 1950s and 60s by Morton Cooper — plus one bonus novel, his hard-boiled classic Call Me Killer, written under the pseudonym “Max Carter.”
GINNY
Jim Creighton is New York’s top television newscaster, a tough journalist known for his probing interviews. But privately, he’s stuck in an unhappy marriage, making him the perfect prey for Ginny Grant, a lovely and lethal seductress who gets off on destroying men.
COME FEED ON ME
Joey French is a hugely successful TV star who seems to have everything… money, fame, and women… but it’s an illusion. Off-camera, his life is falling apart, his raging, inner-demons threatening his sanity and his soul, while a pack of ravenous star-suckers close in, desperate to take whatever piece of him they can.
THE UNGILDED LILY
t’s 1950s Chicago. Magazine writer Peter Farmer is hired to spend a week with Lily Dexter, the hottest and richest stripper in the city, and ghostwrite a racy, autobiographical expose under her name that will be published in a national magazine. But his job goes beyond that. He needs her to share all the alluring details about her that remain hidden… even when she’s naked on stage.
STOP OVER
When the good people of Greenleaf, Pennsylvania condemed Fred Nichols’ mother for her adultery, and wept insincerely over her grave, he left town in disgust and wound up in Hollywood, where he remade himself as a fixer for the stars. Now tan and rich, he’s making his fat living keeping a rock star actor Tommy Hatcher’s wild lifestyle and insatiable desires from creating headlines. But now Tommy’s new movie, The Cool and the Haunted, is shooting in Greenleaf, and Fred will have to confront his past to protect the superstar…and save himself.
THE FLESH AND MR. RAWLIE
The death of Broadway playwright John Rawlie’s first wife, and the crumbling of his second marriage, have him spiraling toward suicide on the night before the opening of his newest play.
THE LOVE SURVEY
A group of scientists exploring human sexuality picks the quiet little town of Waymouth for their research…but despite the very public howls of indignation from the residents, the locals are surprisingly willing to participate, revealing shocking secrets about themselves and their community. The stunning revelations of betrayal, shredded morality, and erotic daring threaten to destroy families, relationships and the town… and tear apart the team of researchers, too.
BONUS BOOK:
CALL ME KILLER!
In 1946, playwright Ed Dirke strangled a woman to death in a drunken rage. He was sentenced to prison for seven years for second-degree murder. Now he’s out, back in New York, and determined to kill again. Only this time, it won’t be an accident and the victim will be his older brother Carl, a traitor working with Chinese Communist spies, who was responsible for Ed’s endless nightmare.
Morton Cooper Feinberg (1925-2004) was a prolific novelist, ghostwriter, and journalist who wrote over 50 books under his own name and others, including Mike Crane, Mark Clements, Max Carter and Mavis Cromwell.
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