Lion Trio 3: Femmes Fatale: Sin Pit / Dark the Summer Dies / The Devil's Daughter - Softcover

Paul S. Meskil; Walter Untermeyer, Jr.; Peter Marsh; (Introduction By Gary Lovisi)

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798886010060

Publisher: Stark House Press, 2022

Synopsis

SIN PIT: “She was very young and very pretty and very dead…and as naked as a fully clothed person could be.” Barney Black is a tough cop in a tough town, but when he goes looking for the dead woman’s killer, he isn’t ready for Grace Trudo. Grace is married to Willie, a small time gambler, who had taken in the dead blonde when she first came to town. Willie could be the killer, but it’s Grace who gets Barney’s attention. Grace is pure, raw sex, and Barney wants her the moment he sees her. Is Grace worth the risk, or could she be trying to hide a kill-crazy husband? Barney is going have to bend more than the rules before he can solve this one. DARK THE SUMMER DIES: Tony Bianchi has a great summer job teaching kids to dive at the local pool. He’s got a sweet girlfriend, Betty, and on weekends they go out together; and sometimes they kiss. Life is good for teenage Tony―but he’s restless for something more. So when he meets an older woman named Vickie and she invites him out to dinner while her husband is away, he takes her up on the offer. Vickie is ten years older, a sophisticated blonde, and just as restless as Tony. But Vickie’s got a different kind of restless. What she doesn’t realize is that what to her is just a quick fling might mean a whole lot more to young Tony. And so quickly his dulcet summer turns into a living hell… THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER: Michel Perry is the owner of a chic nightclub, but he is also a man with a secret. He used to belong to a bootlegging gang. The six men who were his partners have all died, some violently, some mysteriously. Now, as he lies in his upstairs apartment with an alluring woman named Laura, he begins to understand that he might soon be joining them. Because Laura is not whom she seems. She is really Maria Buonarotti, out to avenge her husband’s death. She assures Michel that he is safe, that she is in love with him, and merely wants to share her stories, to unburden her soul. Night after night, as the two of them lie in each other’s arms, Maria tells her stories of revenge. But what will happen to Michel when Maria has no more stories to tell?

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About the Author

Paul Meskil was born July 2, 1923. He earned a journalism degree in 1943 from the University of Missouri, and worked at the New York World-Telegram and World Journal Tribune. He only wrote one novel, Sin Pit―published by Lion Books in 1954―but achieved a cult status with this work. Walter S. Untermeyer Jr. was born September 19, 1915 in New York City. He graduated from Yale in 1941 and then served as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserves during WWII. He only wrote two novels, both published by Lion Books in the early 1950s, spending most of his adult life as a New York lawyer. Peter Marsh/Alan Williams was born Louis William Lowenthal on June 13, 1890, in Washington, DC, of German Jewish immigrants. At age 20 he joined the Immigration Service and was soon hired as personal secretary to the governor of Arizona. Leaving this post, he moved to New York where redefined himself as Alan Williams and wrote over 200 stories. He then moved to California in the 1930s to become a novelist. His most critically acclaimed novel was Room Service, published in 1936.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stark House Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798886010060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280