All three novels by Warner Jackson, a long-lost African-American author of noir fiction, rediscovered and back in print for the first time in over sixty years and now in one ebook collection. THE BIRTH OF THE MARTYR'S GHOST (1957), LUST FOR YOUTH (1960) and CAVERN OF RAGE (1961).The Complete Warner Jackson: All Three Novels By Warner Jackson
All three novels by Warner Jackson, a long-lost African-American author of noir fiction, rediscovered and back in print for the first time in over sixty years and now in one ebook collection. THE BIRTH OF THE MARTYR'S GHOST (1957), LUST FOR YOUTH (1960) and CAVERN OF RAGE (1961).
Four vintage, scorching, hard-boiled novels set in the Louisiana Bayou...all in one volume.
It's the early 1950s. Plantation owner Colonel Bertram Fendelson finds himself having to raise Larry, his dead brother's grandson, after the boy's parents die far too young. The Colonel hires Eleanor, a local waitress who is college-educated and the target of the morally-righteous women in town, to tutor his nephew. But Eleanor is no Mary Poppins, and her presence is like touching a flame to gasoline, igniting a household that's already raging with resentment, greed and barely-controlled lust. 
A young, beautiful woman inherits some money and hits the road to find herself...and quench her passions.
Maria is young, pure, and wonderfully pretty, but believes she's destined to follow her mother into the business of selling her body for sex. 
Lecia McCauslan sought a tainted love that brands her an outcast. Although Lecia's husband desires her with ardor, he also lusts for Dora Jones, a wanton swamp girl... while his wife answers the irresistible call of the bayou, where she knows a dark stranger furtively watches her pagan sacrifices to passion...and yearns for her.