Love or Kill Them All

Manhasset: Kozy K188, 1963. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The heart-warming, feel-good story of 1963, featuring a detective whose adventures take him "through the streets of the city, through homes, nightclubs, gambling dens, cafes," and finding along the way a variety of inspirational characters, among them "love-starved women, brutal men, pimps, prostitutes, bums, hoodlums, gamblers, perverts, criminals, dope-addicts." Cheesy cover art shows our detective hero in a bar, ripping the top off a shiv-clutching babe who looks like she's been down this particular path before, and held her own every single time. 160 pages. Some edgewear, rubbing/handling wear, corner creasing, insect hole to bottom edge (does not affect text) spine split at pages 120/121 (no loose pages, but if you plan to read this literary masterpiece rather than slip it right into that empty slot in the collection, our group of professional suggesters known as the Advisors to the Great Tribe of Smut Paperback Readers and Collectors suggests that you do so very gently [almost certainly a word that the cover babe has never heard before, and has no intention of adding to her vocabulary now])..