BY DAY-A PART-TIME SECRETARY BY NIGHT-A FULL-TIME PLAYGIRL "How long ago was that?" he asked. In the glow of the match her face seemed almost too angelic to be real. An angelic call-girl, he thought. "About a year ago," she told him. "But it seems longer." "How'd it all begin, Kathy?" he asked suddenly. She glanced at him quickly, then away. "They always ask that," she said softly. "Always." "I'm sorry," Steve said, meaning it. She pursed her full lips and blew smoke out slowly, gazing toward the river. "There was a man, of course," she said. "There always is."

A MAN WITH A CRAVING HE COULD NEITHER ACCEPT OR DESTROY Jeff Stoner was a cop who kept the law during the day. But the night drove him into whiskey-drenched rooms and the arms of a redhead -any redhead. He couldn't resist the feel of it in his hands. The silky fire-red hair that inflamed his tough body and tore at his guts. Marcia Webster, his beautiful fiancee watched and waited for their wedding when they would consummate their love. But as Jeff's obsession grew more feverish day by day she became desperate. Would she be too late if she went to his apartment one night?

Alley Girl is a hard book, cold and cruel, peopled with toughs and alcoholics, a nymphomaniac and an unfaithful wife, a savage cop and a young pervert. It is also a fine novel, written with rare and stark simplicity by the talented Jonathan Craig.

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