 Thank you—it's solid black walnut with a clear finish and a rubber recoil pad. 
 The Lady from L.U.S.T. series, of which Kiss My Assassin is one of eighteen entries, featured the character Eve Drum, codenamed Oh Oh Sex, as an operative for the League of Undercover Spies and Terrorists. Apparently spies and terrorists realized they weren't so different after all, and if they can come together there's hope for the rest of us. Drum was expert at safe cracking, knifework, shooting, and martial arts, but most of all sex, the most effective tool in her box.
We think she's one of the better James Bond inspired characters, but really there are so many it's hard to choose. In this adventure she thwarts neo-nazis trying to take over the world. We might be able to use her help in 2016, the way things are going. Kiss My Assassin first appeared in 1968 with Paul Rader cover art (just to the right, and notice the change of entry number), then above in 1973 with cover work by unknown.
 Vintage literature reminds us that murder, deceit, betrayal, lust and greed know no boundaries. 
There’s a saying that the world is a book and those who don’t travel read only one page. But on the other hand, if you stay home the danger and mayhem at least happen in your own language. Which is the better course? Pulp authors seem to think it’s the latter. Above and below are twenty-one vintage bookcovers for fiction set in various cities around the globe. The writing spans genres such as romance, sleaze, horror, and espionage, and the art is by Mitchell Hooks, Barye Phillips, Robert McGinnis, et. al. Thanks to all the original uploaders.                    
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1985—Gotti Ascends to Mafia Throne
In New York City, mafiosi Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, paving the way for Gotti to assume leadership of the powerful Gambino crime family. Gotti is eventually arrested by federal authorities in 1990, and dies of throat cancer in 2002 in a federal prison hospital. 1944—Bandleader Glenn Miller Disappears
World famous big band leader Glenn Miller, who was flying from England to Paris in a small plane, disappears over the English Channel. One theory holds that his plane was knocked down by bombs jettisoned from bombers passing high above after an aborted raid on Germany, but no cause of his disappearance is officially listed, and no trace of Miller, the crew, or the plane is ever found. 1973—Getty Heir Found Alive
John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10, 1973. The gang members had cut off his ear and mailed it to Getty III, but he otherwise is in good health. 1911—Team Reaches South Pole
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, along with his team Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first person to reach the South Pole. After a celebrated career, Amundsen eventually disappears in 1928 while returning from a search and rescue flight at the North Pole. His body is never found.
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