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Now, for the first time ever, three long-lost, relentlessly hard-boiled classics by noir master Stuart James are collected in one volume: Frisco Flat, Bucks County Report, and Judge Not My Sins."One way or another, all of his books are as strikingly memorable. Using words with manipulative skill, he paints portraits that are poignantly three-dimensional and compassionate. You're about to experience the essential Stuart James." David Spencer, from his extensive Afterword in this volume.FRISCO FLATWhen his father is beaten-to-death, Korean War vet and ex-prize fighter Frankie Cargo returns to his home in the small, northern California waterfront town of Frisco Flat. Cargo has inherited his father's fishing boat business and trouble from Sam Barlow, the vicious local cannery owner who rules the town with fear...and with the iron fist of the psychopathic and corrupt Sheriff. If that wasn't bad enough, Barlow gets involved with the Sheriff's lover, the voluptuous Tosca Sorrento, who wants more than any man can give. But Barlow won't be pushed...and never backs down from a fight."Pretty darned good. Frisco Flat moves along well. The book is a little better written, a little more literary in places, than many of the hard-boiled novels from that era," James Reasoner, Rough EdgesBUCKS COUNTY REPORTThe explosive, bestselling novel that lays bare the erotic frustrations of suburban couples in 1960s America with savage frankness and searing drama. In the wake of the Masters & Johnson studies, exposing the surprising sex lives of Americans, came this fictional bestseller that explores what happens when a famous "sexologist" visits a small town to interview the idle wives of the rich and famous... sparking passions that have been ignored or suppressed, dramatically changing the lives of the residents. JUDGE NOT MY SINSThe provocative story of a fierce, destructive affair... of a man who longs to love without restraint, to give up his wife and children to plunge himself into a consuming passion that threatens his world... and of a woman who is driven by desire, and tormented by the horrible knowledge that her voracious hungers will destroy the man she loves.

Although he witnessed the aftermath of the conflict in full force, Charles Chesham was only a child when World War II raged across Europe. Surviving the Blitz that ravaged Britain and growing up in the rubble and ruin of the post-war years, when he was old enough Charles enlisted into the military himself. Sent to Singapore to serve in the RAF in the early '60s, Charles got to experience first-hand how the effects of World War II rocked the world outside of his hometown.Dropped into a country he knows nothing about, Charles quickly strikes up a friendship with his higher-up, Mr Goh, a reserved Chinese soldier who saw out the majority of World War II in the then Japanese-occupied Singapore. As the two grow closer, Goh begins to confide in his new friend, giving Charles an insight into the horror of the Japanese's brutal military rule. Between two stories taking place over both the centre of the conflict and the sobering aftermath, Rising Sun Memories follows Goh on his clandestine operations fighting the Japanese in Malaya and his quest for revenge against a military organisation that took everything from him.Based on true events, in Rising Sun Memories author Stuart James perfectly captures two different perspectives on the biggest world-changing event in modern history. Bringing to life the harrowing story of Mr. Goh and his experience in occupied Singapore, Rising Sun Memories pulls no punches when it comes to shedding light on a side of the conflict never before documented so vividly. As generations collide, the stories of Charles and his military mentor show that when it comes to war, nobody ever really wins.

The explosive, bestselling novel that lays bare the erotic frustrations of suburban couples in 1960s America with savage frankness and searing drama.In the wake of the Masters & Johnson studies, exposing the surprising sex lives of Americans, came this fictional bestseller that explores what happens when a famous "sexologist" visits a small town to interview the idle wives of the rich and famous... sparking passions that have been ignored or suppressed, dramatically changing the lives of the residents. This book was republished in the early 1960s with the same title, but under the pseudonym "Irwin Wallach," and later under the title The Devil's Workshop, but once again under the Stuart James byline.