 "Strange
Bedfellows"
by Gail Spencer
Nite-Lite Books, 1963
The back cover reads:
"THE LADY LOVERS--Petra's fingers parted her robe and, with a sense of
delight, saw Dina's eyes filled with the longing and wanting that she also
felt. They lay together on the couch, each body absorbing the heat and
hunger from the other. Together they found an aura of devious sweetness
where their touch sent dizzy patterns of ecstasy up one another's spines.
SEX CAN BE FUN. She learned what she was in the arms of her lover's wife!
As Lianna's fingers busied themselves with the buttons on her clothes,
she heard the director's voice call out, 'Use three cameras, boys, and
watch that dog!' The dog? What did they think she way? One horrifying moment
later she found this was not just an idle jest."
Sounds interesting, and a bit twisted, huh? Sounds
like a book that might be featured in Strange Sisters (see
below), right? WRONG! The back cover has absolutely no connection with
the pages inside. It was all a scam to get us to buy into (and buy) the
book. It worked on me and it would work on you to. Lesbian pulp fiction
is the height of tawdry paperback collecting, and any collector worth his
salt would have snapped this one up in a moment. The cover is amazing,
the back text is intruiging, but the story itself is a dud. It's like an
episode of Melrose Place without a plot. The only part of the book that
could actually be considered true to the hype is a small scene in
chapter 2 with the school teacher and the lonely wife of a traveling salesman.
But this scene is soon forgotten and by the end of the book our hapless
teacher is hooked up with the lady-killer, he-man writer. It's not that
I'm not glad this paperback is in my collection--it's just a little bit
of a let down. It's like the feeling you get when you think you've got
the holy grail only to find out that it's made out of styrofoam.
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