Avon 190 (1949). Cover Art by Ann Cantor
From the blurb inside:
This is the story of an irresistibly ruthless lover who let neither maidenly innocence nor social proprieties stand in his way.
Beth Wimbish, beautiful daughter of an aristocratic family, succumbed entirely to his cruel fascination. She wanted him and she had him and sank with him when he went down.
In Greenwich Village, Jake had gained for himself a lurid reputation as a striking personality and an artist of amazing power. The came the day when Jake met the Village's strangest Bohemian, the fantastic love-cultist Bellerophon Cawdor. Cawdor taught Jake the pleasures and passions of a modern Bluebeard -- and dragged Beth into a weird and tragic love.
Seldom in literature will you encounter as startling a romance as Ward Greene's "The Life and Loves of a Modern Mister Bluebeard.
Avon 190 (1949). Cover Art by Ann Cantor
From the blurb inside:
This is the story of an irresistibly ruthless lover who let neither maidenly innocence nor social proprieties stand in his way.
Beth Wimbish, beautiful daughter of an aristocratic family, succumbed entirely to his cruel fascination. She wanted him and she had him and sank with him when he went down.
In Greenwich Village, Jake had gained for himself a lurid reputation as a striking personality and an artist of amazing power. The came the day when Jake met the Village's strangest Bohemian, the fantastic love-cultist Bellerophon Cawdor. Cawdor taught Jake the pleasures and passions of a modern Bluebeard -- and dragged Beth into a weird and tragic love.
Seldom in literature will you encounter as startling a romance as Ward Greene's "The Life and Loves of a Modern Mister Bluebeard.