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Her name was Celeste Pierce and she was Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield all rolled into one. In short, she was this year's Hollywood sensation - meaning that the movie magazine without her picture was as rare as the war novel without four-letter words. But what Celeste was before she became the find-of-the-year wouldn't look quite so well in print, as Murray Carter - who printed a little periodical called BARE FACTS - politely told her. Just before he became the late Murray Carter.
Author
Frank Kane, Brooklyn-born and a lifetime New Yorker, worked for many years in journalism and corporate public relations before shifting to fiction writing. At the time he was selling crime stories to the pulps he was also sustaining a career writing scripts for such radio shows as Gangbusters and The Shadow. In addition to the Johnny Liddells, Kane wrote several suspense novels, some softcore erotica, and (under the pen name of Frank Boyd) "Johnny Staccato", a Gold Medal original paperback based on the short-lived noir television series, starring John Cassavetes, about a Greenwich Village bebop pianist turned private detective.
