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...dominant theme. The younglove interest is entrusted to a boy who seems to be losing his wits (his mother died in a mental institution) anoa pretty juvenile delinquent who is in danger of making a habit of motel weekends with married men. The murder victim is a gigolo-like blackmailer. Author Quentin is a skilled carpenter at knocking together a neat puzzle and in sending the reader haring off down a dozen false trails. But it is hard to be sympathetically involved with any of this yarn's not-very-winning people. The attractive character is Lieut. Trant...
...wanton Lana just loved one of the Mick's boys, olive-skinned, handsome Johnny Stompanato. A small-town boy with big ideas, Johnny was a preening gigolo, brushed his black hair thick and wavy, wore his shiny silk shirts open all the way down to his navel. He was also the fast-buck type, who, police well knew, built his bankroll by making time with thrill-seeking wealthy women, borrowed their money, rarely paid it back. Lana took Johnny in tow, paid his bills, flashed around the town on his muscular arm. When she flew to London last September...
Splash in Mexico. A child painter who won her first prize when she was twelve, Marcia Bennett bucked parental objections ("My father thought I would wind up barefooted living with a gigolo in some basement") to follow through with an art career after studying at Columbia and Yale. Married to a Washington, D.C. businessman, Marcia fell in love with Mexico on a vacation trip, persuaded her husband to go into business there as a mining engineer. She soon managed to become a friend of such conflicting personalities as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Siqueiros. Her splashy, arresting style is strong...
...contender in the Sagan sweeps is Pamela Moore, 18, a Barnard College senior, whose novel Chocolates for Breakfast will appear later this month. It deals with a fading movie star's daughter named Courtney Farrell, who between 15 and 17 has an affair with her mother's gigolo-a homosexual until the heroine sets him straight. After that it's just one Yale man after another, until Courtney turns for intellectual companionship and "decency" to a Harvard law graduate-an "older...
What Harry doesn't know is that his wife is quivering at her roots, too-over Aldo, a part-time actor, gigolo, spiv and, of course, a "god." Jane writes letters to Aldo in which she calls him "lord and master of my life." The attempt to recover these letters forms a plot as schematic as a shooting script...