“Sin-Stained” by Roland Vane (Ernest McKeag). Archer Book No. 58 Paperback Original (1950). British paperback. Cover Art by Reginald Heade.
“After what you’ve done to me . . . kill me!”
From the back cover:
It is no exaggeration to say that this powerful story is one of the most dramatic novels Roland Vane has ever penned. Taking as his “heroine” a woman – little more than a girl – who finds herself drawn into a loveless marriage because of a girlish indiscretion, he traces the effect of marital disillusion until at last it flares out into an intense, unreasoning hatred.
Fascinated by a handsome young lover, she embarks on a life of deceit, until, carried on by a wild surging passion which neither of them can resist, she and her lover are involved in a stark tragedy to which there can only be one conclusion.
Her lover pays the price, but the woman who has loved and lost cannot escape the retribution which is remorselessly overtaking her. Eventually, the prey of a wretched blackmailer who filches from her money, body, and soul, she discovers too late that the wages of sin are sometimes even worse than death.
“Sin-Stained” by Roland Vane (Ernest McKeag). Archer Book No. 58 Paperback Original (1950). British paperback. Cover Art by Reginald Heade.
“After what you’ve done to me . . . kill me!”
From the back cover:
It is no exaggeration to say that this powerful story is one of the most dramatic novels Roland Vane has ever penned. Taking as his “heroine” a woman – little more than a girl – who finds herself drawn into a loveless marriage because of a girlish indiscretion, he traces the effect of marital disillusion until at last it flares out into an intense, unreasoning hatred.
Fascinated by a handsome young lover, she embarks on a life of deceit, until, carried on by a wild surging passion which neither of them can resist, she and her lover are involved in a stark tragedy to which there can only be one conclusion.
Her lover pays the price, but the woman who has loved and lost cannot escape the retribution which is remorselessly overtaking her. Eventually, the prey of a wretched blackmailer who filches from her money, body, and soul, she discovers too late that the wages of sin are sometimes even worse than death.