 "Ship's
Doctor"
by Henry Lewis Nixon
Intimate Novels, 1954
The back cover reads:
"Nothing could end his desire...
Ric wanted Helen the
moment he saw her singing in the Club High Hat. He wanted to run his fingers
through her blonde hair and mash his lips hard against her fresh, tormentingly
beautiful mouth. Perhaps possessing a good woman like Helen would make
him forget he was a near alcholic...a disgrace to his profession.
As ship's surgeon, Ric
took her aboard the Santa Maria on a pleasure cruise. Helen became too
interested in the first man she met. Now Ric suddenly realized exactly
what she was, even as the passengers knew what Ric was--a drunken derelict
consumed by a desire for a worthless woman.
Even now, Helen was
below deck in the arms of another.
But still Ric wanted
her."
This book touches all
the bases when it comes to tawdry literature. We have the disgraced doctor,
his flame the torch singer, and the lusty first mate who all mix together
in the classic battling of demons, both public and private. Ric wants to
start a new life and find the next Mrs. Right (since the last two didn't
work out.) Helen wants to find Mr. Right instead of Mr. Right-Now. And
the first mate, a man simply known as Marzak, will take anything he can
get. This is a book that has elements of a doctor's story, a sailor's story,
a lounge drama, and a bad-girl-trying-to-be-good tearjerker.
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