Side Street

Uni-Book 20 1951
Uni-Book 20 1951

Every Door Hid Intimate Mystery
Here the homeless found shelter… the lonely discovered affection…

From the back:

HERE CAME THE DISILLUSIONED, TO LIVE—AND LOVE!
Hardly a stone’s throw from Manhattan’s gay white way, the disreputable old mansion on the dim side street outdid even the main stem in its daily round of laughter and tears—of sophistication sullying innocence—of high, pure courage side by side with sheer wickedness. It attracted not only the city’s theatrical backwash, but also a Park Avenue divorcee, a handsome ex-tycoon, a renegade girl from Texas, a questionable interior decorator—all mingling in that strange communion of free-and-easy comraderie which only the disenfranchised dare!
For among these footloose souls, the ordinary rules of society went by the board. Habitues, male and female, sought solace where they could find it. Unconventional romance was the order of the day, with all it entailed of poignant ecstasy that exalted the senses—and of hidden heartbreak that degraded the soul…
Hungry for love’s security, for companionship, are these denizens of Side Street, these wandering, wanton hearts. So hungry that they risk everything for it; name, reputation, even ultimate salvation! Therein lies the irresistible fascination of this novel of fierce emotion—as gripping as the passions of which it tells!

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Scandalous Affair

Uni-Book 17 1951
Uni-Book 17 1951

He Took His Best Friend’s Wife On A Picnic…!
When two young couples agree to share one home—will they find themselves sharing more than food

From the back:

Come into my parlor…
Blame it on the housing shortage! When two young couples must share the same home, romantic complications obviously are to be expected. But Bob Breen did carry things a bit too far… falling in love with Eve Rudy, the wife of his best friend. And Eve—a stick of dynamite in the shape of a lovely woman—proved more than willing to meet Bob half way.
All of which left Bob’s pretty little wife, Judy, out in the cold and full of heartbreak… and with so much time on her hands that she engaged in night after night of work at her boss’s apartment. It also made her receptive to the strictly dishonorable blandishments of Eve’s husband. This seemed a cozy enough compromise for two couples sharing one house, but the results threatened to be, if not downright wicked, then positively scandalous! Could loyalty and honor possibly save the day—and everybody’s reputations? It was, of all people, Judy’s amorous boss who provided the exquisitely entertaining answer…

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