DEAN, RALPH. _One Kind of Woman._ pbo, Beacon, 1959. Evening waster.
_Forbidden Thrills._ pbo Bedtime Books 1959. Scv.
—and Jay Arpage; _Non Stop Flight_, Brookwood 1958.
—and Cleo Dorene; _Fountain of Youth_, Brookwood 1958.
—and Arthur Maurier; _Wicked Curves_, Brookwood 1958.
—and Les Maxime; _Eye Lust_, Brookwood 1959.
—and Les Maxime; _The Golden Nymph_, Brookwood 1958.
These are all hardcover risque novels retailing for about $3 in bookstores which deal in that sort of thing for the adult trade only; I don’t know, not being a postal inspector, whether they can legally be sent through the U S Mails. On the whole I would think not. They are all fairly well written for books of their kind, amusing and entertaining, and bear about the same relationship to the paperback scv—evening wasters that ESQUIRE does to the average cheaper girly magazine. They are, however, strictly for a male audience; the “lesbian” content in all of them is presented from a strip-tease point of view and in every case the girl involved is “cured” of this perversion by male seduction—in some cases, by brutality. The plot of _Non Stop Flight_ is typical; hero Eric Leighton discovers his wife dallying with a lesbian, so he beats up and rapes the lesbian (juicily described) whereupon his wife commits suicide. Then Eric gets involved with Celia, a stereotype “dish” with an ineffectual husband; when Celia tires of him he beats her up and rapes her (juicily described) then runs across the lesbian who has seduced his wife _and_ Celia, so he beats her up and rapes her again (juicily described) after which Eric and the lesbian get married and live very happily forever after. I don’t know precisely what to call these books, but lesbiana is hardly descriptive. You have been warned.
DEISS, JAY. _The Blue Chips._ Simon & Schuster 1957, pbr Bantam 1958. fco. In an excellent novel of medical laboratory workers, a very very minor lesbian character.
DE FORREST, MICHAEL. _The Gay Year._ N. Y., Woodford Press, 1949, (m). Happily untypical of this publisher’s racy trash, this story of a young man searching for self-knowledge in New York’s Bohemia is very good of its kind.
DELL, FLOYD. _Diana Stair._ Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Long novel of the early 19th century. Diana is a woman writer, but also explores life as mill-girl, schoolteacher and abolitionist. Though attracted to, and attractive to men, she is never without “some older woman to adore and emulate, or some younger woman to teach and inspire.” Delightful, ironic novel of the trouble women can get into when they refuse to fall neatly into the ruts laid down by conventional society for women’s lives.