Our book today is Jack Oleck’s 1959 novel Messalina, specifically the handy old Dell paperback with the Jim Meese cover showing a buxom blonde femme fatale standing in athletic flat-footed readiness with whip in hand. The front cover promises that the book is both unabridged and, enticingly, uncensored, and the back cover asserts that when it comes to Messalina, “nothing in the realm of passion was beyond her knowledge.”
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