prepared by Lynn Munroe
Lawrence Block told me he was Andrew Shaw until he left the Scott Meredith Agency in late 1963 or early 1964. Meredith kept the pen name going until 1967 but Block was not involved. Of course it is probable that the editors had some Block-authored Andrew Shaw books in the pipeline or in what Earl Kemp called the "slush pile", which could explain the 1966 Shaw book Kitty, which reads like Lawrence Block.
The author names following the titles on the checklist are ones I've been told wrote those books. Whoever was writing Shaws after Block is unknown, so those are blank.
NIGHTSTAND BOOKS1505 CAMPUS TRAMP (1959) Lawrence Block
1511 THE ADULTERERS (1960) Block
1517 HIGH SCHOOL SEX CLUB says Shaw on cover, John Dexter on title page
1520 THE SIN-DAMNED Block
1526 THE WIFE-SWAPPERS Block (reprinted: 1719)
1531 SEXPOT Block
1534 COLLEGE FOR SINNERS Block
1541 TRAMP (1961) Block
1543 THE TWISTED ONES Block
1546 $20 LUST Block (reprinted: 1705)
1548 GIRLS ON THE PROWL Block
1551 LOVER Block
1553 TRAILER TROLLOP Block (reprinted: 1703)
1563 PASSION SLAVES William Coons (reprinted: 1712)
1566 SIN DEVIL Coons1569 ARMY SIN GIRLS Coons
1575 HOUSE OF 7 SINS Coons
1578 PONYTAIL TRAMP Coons
1599 SIN HELLCAT Block & Donald E. Westlake
1604 BUTCH (1962) Block
1611 PASSION ALLEY
1614 LUST WEEKEND
1619 HARLEM HARLOT says Don Holliday on cover, Shaw on title page
1623 REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS
1627 EAST SIDE SINNERS
1629 THE SADIST Block
1635 SINTIME
1639 LUST PAD
1641 FLESH MAD
1647 SIN SLUM
1703 reprints 1553
1705 reprints 1546
1712 reprints 1563
1719 reprints 1526
1745 THE HOUSE IN JOY COURT (1965)
1772 SIN SEER (1966)
1775 PASSION PROF
1777 PASSION LASH
1777 PASSION LASH
1783 ROMANCE ROBOT
1786 KITTY Block
1803 PASSION'S PREY
1828 BACK SEAT SINNERS (1967)
1835 ON-CALL WIFE
MIDNIGHT READER402 PASSION IN PAINT (1961) Block
404 MOTEL SEX CLUB
405 LUST DAMNED
408 LUST CAMPUS Block
409 SLUM SINNERS (1962)
416 LUST SLUM
420 PASSION C.O.D. Coons
427 CROSSROADS OF LUST Block
431 FLESH PARADE
436 PASSION NIGHTMARE Coons
447 THE WANTON WATCHER
456 HARLOT SCHOOL
462 FLESH MOB Block
472 SIN BUM
477 FLESH FOOLS (1963)
491 SIN HOSTESS
BEDSIDE
1224 GUTTER GIRL (1962)
EMBER BOOK
904 SIN BABES by Andrew Shole (1963)
906 LUST TEAM by Andrew Shole
910 ORGY HOUSE by Andrew Shole
934 LUST LADDER by Andrew Shole (1964)
940 CALL GIRL SCHOOL
EMBER LIBRARY
316 SINTOWN SETUP (1966)
326 WILLING INTERN
332 A MOUNTAIN OF SIN
336 HUSH-HUSH TOWN
338 LEATHER
341 BAD TOWN
356 A PLAGUE OF PASSIONS
375 HOT ROD ROGUES (1967)
LEISURE BOOK
603 PASSION MADMAN by Andrew Shole (1963) Coons605 SIN SULTAN by Andrew Shole (1964) Coons
613 SIN ALLEY
620 SEX ROUTE
621 THE SINNER
621 THE SINNER
628 SEX CAPTIVE
634 LUST IN TIME
643 WANTON DOA by Andrew Shay
648 SIN STOP by Andrew Shay
653 PASSION PARTY by Andrew Shay
688 PENTHOUSE PLAYERS (1965)
1118 VOYEUR
1134 FRATERNITY OF SHAME (1966)
1143 THE JAZZ SINNER
1149 STRANGE AFFAIR
1151 THE SCREAMING VIRGIN
1155 BUT LOVING NONE
1173 VILLAGE OF DESPAIR
PILLAR BOOK
827 SIN MASTER
848 PASSION POST (1964)
EVENING READER
709 SHAME CLUB (1964)
713 THE WILD ONES
719 SHAME MATES
725 LETHAL LUST
733 PASSION PAL by Andrew Shay
746 BORN TO LUST by Andrew Shay
760 THE SHAME MAKERS by Andrew Shay
763 EXOTICA by Andrew Shay
767 WOODLAND WANTON by Andrew Shay
788 SIN WATCHER (1965)
1214 OLYMPIC ORGY (1965)
1220 THE SEX PRO (1966)
1221 PASSION PROFITEER
1233 MISS UNDERSTANDING
1243 PSYCHO CIRCUS
1256 ACRES OF SHAMEIDLE HOUR
420 THE SIN SATYR by Andrew Shay (1964)
436 SIN STORE by Andre Shay (1965)
440 PROJECT PASSION
450 SIN SMOTHERED
487 LONG ISLAND LUST (1966)
517 FUGITIVE LOVER
SUNDOWN READER
527 THE PROCURER by Andrew Shay (1964)
538 HALLS OF SIN by Andrew Shay (1965)
(note: 538 credits Andrew Shaw on the cover but Shay on the title page)
(note: 538 credits Andrew Shaw on the cover but Shay on the title page)
548 THE SINFUL SIX
552 HILLTOP LUST
572 BARTERED BODIES
CANDID READER
906 NO ROOM FOR SHAME (1967)
912 LETHAL LOVER
COMPANION BOOK
518 FALLING IN LUST (1967)
LATE-HOUR LIBRARY
712 FISHERS OF FLESH (1967)
REED NIGHTSTAND (reprints the first 100 Nightstands and the first 20 Midnight Readers)3005 CAMPUS TRAMP (1973) reprints Nightstand 1505
3011 THE ADULTERERS reprints Nightstand 1511
3017 THE CORRUPTED retitles Nightstand 1517
3020 THE SWITCHERS retitles Nightstand 1520
3026 THE LIBERTINES retitles Nightstand 1534
3031 THE WANTONS retitles Nightstand 1548
3033 THE UNASHAMED retitles Nightstand 1543
3034 CINDERELLA SIMS retitles Nightstand 1546
3036 TRAMP reprints Nightstand 1541
3039 THE WIFE SWAPPERS reprints Nightstand 1526
3045 LOVER reprints Nightstand 1551
3047 FOUR WILD GIRLS retitles Nightstand 1553
3050 BAD GIRL retitles Nightstand 1531
3056 THE DEVIL'S MAIDENS retitles Nightstand 1566
3062 THE CARNAL CROWD retitles Nightstand 1563
4003 THE BRAZEN CORPS (1974) retitles Nightstand 1569
4009 THE OBSESSED retitles Nightstand 1575
4012 NO STAIN SO DEEP retitles Nightstand 1578
4022 THE LOVELOST retitles Midnight Reader 402
4024 THE WILD ONES retitles Midnight Reader 404
(same title as Evening Reader 713 but a different book)
4029 THE VIOLATED retitles Midnight Reader 405
4032 UP IN LINDA'S ROOM retitles Midnight Reaer 408
4037 PITY THE DAMNED retitles Midnight Reader 4094048 THE TROUBLE WITH KAREN retitles Midnight Reader 416
4049 A PIECE OF THE ACTION retitles Nightstand 1599
4056 PITCH MAN, LOVER MAN retitles Midnight Reader 420
Make sure to keep checking this list as it's updated periodically.
Lynn's even more detailed list of Andrew Shaw's novels can be found here. This is also an issue of eI that contains a lot of information about the Andrew Shaw/Lawrence Block connection.
As an addendum to the Shaw list, I received the following e-mail from Lynn Munroe tonight:
ReplyDeletePete:
Since he is beginning to open up about Andrew Shaw, I asked Lawrence Block about the books that came out in 1964 as by "Andrew Shay". This is his reply:
Lynn,
No idea who wrote Andrew Shay. When I broke with Scott Meredith, late 63 or early 64, I could no longer write for Hamling. My guess is they passed somebody else off as me and changed a letter of the pen name for some reason---to keep me from making a fuss, maybe. God knows. I never saw the books.
Larry
A further addendum. This just from Lynn:
ReplyDeletePeter-
I asked Larry if any other titles had come to light, and he told me he had received some books from Donald E. Westlake's family after Don died. One of them was BORDER LUST by Don Holliday, Nightstand 1588. (I had attributed this to Hal Dresner, who was Don Holliday at that time, although Dresner said he did not write it.) Inside the book, in Westlake's handwriting , it said "written by Larry Block." Block then remembered that one month Dresner was sick and could not meet his monthly quota, so his prolific friend Block knocked one off for him. Block recently re-read BORDER LUST and recognized it as one of his own.
A writer is preparing a Lawrence Block bibliography and when he sent it to Larry, Larry told him to take these books off the list (all quotes are from Block's email):
NO LONGER A VIRGIN by John Dexter, Nightstand NB1513 - "this is not mine at all. This was Don Westlake's first book for Hamling."
This finally clears up a 25-year mystery for me. NO LONGER A VIRGIN was on the first Block & Westlake list I was given, with A GIRL CALLED HONEY and SO WILLING. I know they wrote 3 together, so I figured this was the third. It is mentioned in CROSSROADS OF LUST. But now I know SIN HELLCAT by Andrew Shaw was their third collaboration. And NO LONGER A VIRGIN was Westlake only.
SHAME DAME by John Dexter, Midnight Reader 471 "never heard of this, don't believe it's mine"
PLEASURE MACHINE - 1968 Sheldon Lord Midwood "don't think this was mine, believe it was ghosted"
SIN DEVIL by Andrew Shaw, Nightstand 1566 "ghosted by Bill Coons"
(Coons told me he write this)
LUST DAMNED by Andrew Shaw, Midnight Reader 405 "not mine - this was Bill Coons"
LUST CAMPUS by Andrew Shaw, Midnight Reader 408 "ghosted by Peter Hochstein"
Coons told me this was Block, so I have long attributed it to him. Coons did not realize Block had another ghost. I asked Peter Hochstein about ghosting for Block. He admitted he wrote a Sheldon Lord for Beacon called HUSBAND CHASER (Beacon B469F), and he said he wrote a "terrible" Andrew Shaw that he "can't remember" the title of. Now, thanks to Block, we have that title.
THE SISTERHOOD by Sheldon Lord, Beacon B659X "not mine - ghosted by somebody, not sure who"
Milo Perichitch told me he ghosted this.
THE THIRD WAY by Sheldon Lord, Beacon B491F "not mine - ghosted by somebody, not sure who"
I'm going to ask Larry to look at this book again.
FLESH MOB by Andrew Shaw, Midnight Reader 462 "believe this was Bill Coons"
Another one to ask Larry about.
OUTCAST 1967 Softcover Library Sheldon Lord - "never heard of this, not mine."
In addition, Lynn just recently learned that MAN FOR RENT by John Dexter, Nightstand 1590, was a collaboration by Lawrence Block and William Coons.)
And, in another e-mail Block discloses to Lynn:
THE THIRD WAY is "probably Peter Hochstein, my Antioch College roommate".
FLESH MOB "may be one of mine".