Today you see painterly goodness from Bernard Safran, with a cover for 1954’s Stag-Party Girl, written by Bart Frame and published by digest specialists Croydon Books. The story deals with a sex-loving twenty-year-old bombshell named Andrea Holland who, after some public indiscretions, flees her smalltown home and fetches up in New York City. She tries to turn over a newly chaste leaf, but instead is inspired to become a stripper after witnessing a performance by a peeler named Cynthia La Starr.
However, the book isn’t about that. The stripping bit comes in the final pages, which means the title is deceptive. Before that, the story is a standard sleaze drama driven by familial friction between Andrea and her big sister, a television star whose boyfriend Andrea steals and in so doing turns her sister into an enemy. It’s all reasonably well written, containing sharper-than-usual dialogue, but we can’t exactly recommend it, though you could do worse. What we can recommend is that you enjoy more art from both Safran and Croydon Books by clicking their keywords below.