ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM
 
 

Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968) was a prolific American pulp magazine writer, best known for his creation of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Before becoming a writer he worked in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter, radio announcer and film extra. After the demise of the pulps, Bellem switched to writing for television, including a number of scripts for The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Superman, Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip, and other shows. Bellem wrote in a variety of genres for many pulp magazines, particularly those owned by Culture Publications such as Spicy Detective, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Western and Spicy Mystery. Bellem's most famous creation was the hardboiled detective Dan Turner, whose stories were written in the first person in a racy, slangy style that made them extremely popular. Set against the background of the Hollywood film industry (of which Bellem had personal knowledge), the Dan Turner stories appeared first in the pages of Spicy Detective (subsequently retitled Speed Detective) and later in his "own" magazine, Hollywood Detective, which ran from January 1942 to October 1950. It is claimed that Bellem produced some 3000 short stories in a pulp magazine career lasting less than 30 years.He also wrote under a variety of pen names such as Jerome Severs Perry, Ellery Watson Calder, John A. Saxon, Harley L. Court, Anthony Gordon, and others.

THE CASE FILES OF DAN TURNER HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE
A three volume look at the story writing of Robert Leslie Bellem, the creator and author of the Dan Turner stories, in his own words.
Volume 1 - Deals with the early Spicy period from 1934 to 1941. Includes the first 4 stories published. Over 320 pages, containing 20 stories and 2 articles.
Volume 2 - Deals with the middle period, a slightly less spicy period, when Dan Turner appeared in his own magazine, filled with his own stories. The 21 stories and 1 letter in this over 360 page book are from 1943.
Volume 3 - Deals with the final period, from the end of 1943 to 1950. The stories now have less sexual content and more comedy. Over 350 pages, with 15 complete stories and a Dan Turner bibliography.
Volume 1 - The Spicy Years

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340 pages
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ISBN 978-1987072716

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Volume 2 - The Middle Years

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372 pages
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ISBN 978-1987072723

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Volume 3 - The Later Years

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364 pages
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ISBN 978-1987072761

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Deja Vue! Have you ever encountered it? Probably! Well, when you read enough of the works of Robert Leslie Bellem, the creator of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, you will have that deja vue feeling--Bellem was not above rewriting his older, spicy stories, into tamer products. This collection brings together six pairs of stories, the first, usually spicy, version, and the rewritten version. Also included are the original illustrations for both versions of the story. Collected together are:
Cat Act - 1941
Spicy Detective Stories
Cat Act - 1943
Hollywood Detective
The Million Buck Snatch - 1936
Spicy Detective Stories
Million Buck Snatch - 1942
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective
Sleeping Dogs - 1934
Spicy Detective Stories
Sleeping Dogs - 1943
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective
Death's Diary - 1937
Spicy Detective Stories
Model For A Corpse - 1950
Hollywood Detective
Brunette Bump-Off - 1938
Spicy Detective Stories
Russian Run Around - 1943
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective
Robots Can't Lie - 1941
Fantastic Adventures
Wire Trap - 1949
Super Detective
Softcover:
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232 pages
$20.00
ISBN 978-1987072778


Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #1
Written and created by Robert Leslie Bellem, the hardnosed, feisty, Hollywood Detective, Dan Turner, is featured in eight stories and one comic presentation in this compilation. Read Temporary Corpse, Death's Bright Halo, Beyond Justice, Dark Star of Death, Blackmail from Beyond, Crimson Quest, Cat Act, and Latin Blood, as well as the comic, The Murdered Mummy. All stories are from Spicy Detective and Private Detective and are fully illustrated with the original artwork which accompanied their publication in the pulps.

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6 x 9 inch
208 pages
$29.95
ISBN 978-1987072808

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208 pages
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ISBN 978-1987072792

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #2
Written and created by Robert Leslie Bellem, the hardnosed, feisty, Hollywood Detective, Dan Turner, is featured in nine stories in this compilation. Read Death Begins At Forty, Corpse On Ice, Homicide Highball, King-Size Kill, Murder Off the Record, Dead Man's Code, Cat Act, Death's Dress Rehearsal, and The Lake of the Left-Hand Moon. All stories are from Hollywood Detective and are fully illustrated with the original artwork which accompanied their publication in the pulps.

Note: When I was assembling the above compilation, I had not planned on including Cat Act because I thought it was the same story which appeared in the first compilation. However, upon looking through it, I realized that Bellem rewrote the Spicy version into a tamer one, including a new cast of characters and new text (as well as new illustrations). However, the storyline is identical.

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382 pages
$29.95
ISBN 978-1987072839

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382 pages
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ISBN 978-198-7072815

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #3
Written and created by Robert Leslie Bellem, the hardnosed, feisty, Hollywood Detective, Dan Turner, is featured in nine great stories from 1944, brought to you in the same order as they were originally published: Widow by Proxy, Dead Heat, Focus on Death, The Vanishing Vampire, Killer's Legacy, Over the Hill to the Death House, Odds on the Eight Ball, Killer's Curse, and Pistol-Packing Premiere. Thrill to Dan Turner's exploits with the original text from the pulp magazine Hollywood Detective, and the original illustrations which graced the stories in that old-time magazine.

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294 pages
$29.95
ISBN 978-1987072860

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294 pages
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ISBN 978-1987072846

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #4
Written and created by Robert Leslie Bellem, the hardnosed, feisty, Hollywood Detective, Dan Turner, is featured in eight great stories from 1944 and 1946: Killer's Contract, Sleep for a Dreamer, The Tree of the Pointing Finger, Kidnap Ticket, Dan Turner Deals an Ace, Dirge for a Phony, The Queen Was In Her Coffin, and Serial Kill. Also included is a Writer's Digest article, "Break It Up!".

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366 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073447

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ISBN 978-1987073430

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #5
Written and created by Robert Leslie Bellem, the hardnosed, feisty, Hollywood Detective, Dan Turner, is featured in eight great stories: Murder on the Sound Stage, Pin-Up Corpse, Frame Around a Fall Guy, Crazy for the Kill, The Lady Regrets, The Book of the Phantom Bullet, Dog's Life, and Coffin for a Coward. Fully illustrated with the original pulp magazine's illustrations from Dan Turner Hollywood Detective #1 and the August, October, and December, 1945 issues of Hollywood Detective.

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382 pages
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ISBN 978-1681014616

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ISBN 978-1987073454

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #6
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, returns in another collection of stories from Hollywood Detective pulp magazine. Completely illustrated with the original interior pulp artwork. Fully illustrated with the original pulp magazine's illustrations from Dan Turner Hollywood Detective #1 and the February, April, and November 1946 issues of Hollywood Detective.

Contents:
Bullet From Nowhere
Syndicate Snatch
Murder--NSF
Green Heat
Kill Me Again
Red Night
Freak Show
Murder From Music
Fangs For The Memory
Arrangement For Murder
The Riddle Thumbs A Ride

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342 pages
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ISBN 978-1681014609

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ISBN 978-1987073461

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #7
Fourteen Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective stories from Hollywood Detective pulp magazines from January 1950 to August 1950. Complete text with all original interior illustrations.

Contents:
Quickie Kill
Terror on the Doorstep
Death on the Set
Model for a Corpse
Any Number Can Slay
Doom on File
Action! Camera! - Drop Dead!
Movie Mad - Murder Mad
Screen Test for Murder
Cast as a Corpse
Cast for Murder
Cutie in a Coffin
Diamonds of Death
Murder Wears Makeup

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404 pages
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ISBN 978-1681014593

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ISBN 978-1987073478

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #8
Another bookful of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories from 1944 and 1945 issues of Speed Detective. Included in this book are:

Coffin Frame
Gun From Gotham
Stock Shot
Stars Die at Night
Trump for the Ace
Morgue Case
Snatch Buster
Suicide Stunt
Dolly Shot
Funeral Fade-Out

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350 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073492

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ISBN 978-1987073485

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #9
Another bookful of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories from 1942 issues of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are:

Beyond Justice
Death on Location
Gas-House Still
Murder Done Twice
Murderer's Error
Murder for Fame
Star Chamber
Broken Melody
The Color of Murder
Daughter of Murder
Killer's Union
Malibu Mess

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268 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073522

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ISBN 978-1987073515

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #10
Another bookful of Dan Turner stories from 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, and 1943 issues of Spicy Detective Stories, Speed Detective, and Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are:

Dead Man's Head
Falling Star
Silverscreen Spectre
Veiled Lady
Death's Passport
Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead
Star Chamber
Riddle in the Rain
Sleeping Dogs
Sing a Song of Murder

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ISBN 978-1987073539

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Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #11
Another bookful of Dan Turner stories from 1934, 1941, 1943, and 1946 issues of Spicy Detective, Dan Turner--Hollywood Detective, and Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are:

Murder By Proxy
Crimson Comedy
Sleeping Dogs
Arrow From Nowhere
Feature Snatch
Shakedown Sham
Fall Guy For Forgery

Trade Paperback:
6 x 9 inch
248 pages
$14.95
ISBN 978-1647203382




SPICY ADVENTURES by Robert Leslie Bellem

Prolific writer, Robert Leslie Bellem, was a mainstay in the adult oriented pulp magazine market for many years before the genre was tamed down for legal reasons. His most famous creation was Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. SPICY ADVENTURE was one of the Culture Publications spicy pulps. Included in this facsimile magazine are the following stories:

The Bones of Pizarro
In Debt to the Devil
Carboy of Death
Poppy Dust
Burned Bridges
Created He Them
Fire Mountain
Flow of Gold

Pulp Sized Magazine:
7 x 10 inch
134 pages
$12.95
ISBN 978-1987073546


LITTLE JACK HORNER

Contents:
Homicide Plum
The Seer Sees Death
Murder At Auction
The Big Fix
A Corpse Comes Home
Killery in the Cards

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142 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073553


PULP TALES PRESENTS #7: THE ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM MAGAZINE

Facsimile reprints of stories written by the creator of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective.

Contents:
Moods and Pulp-Paper Fiction
The Flowers of Enchantment
Murderer's Luck
Burial Plot (Rusty Regan)
Glass For Gallardo (Detective Sergeant Nolan)
Three-Way Weapons
Stars Die At Night (Dan Turner)
Dark Miracle
The Cat Mews Murder (Jeff Quinlan)
Last Act
Will For A Killer (Bill Brody)
Strike Up The Gland

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6 x 9 inch
122 pages
$24.95
ISBN 978-1987073737

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122 pages
$14.95
ISBN 978-1987072198

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The Vice Czar Murders
Written by Cleve F. Adams and Robert Leslie Bellem as Franklin Charles. Bill Rock worked for the District Attorney. He was assigned to help clean up vice in the city. He was at the burlesque theater to find a girl. When he was invited to her room, he found her dead--and he was charged with murder!

Hardcover w/dust jacket:
6 x 9 inch
192 pages
$29.95
ISBN 978-1987072341

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192 pages
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ISBN 978-1987072334

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The Window with the Sleeping Nude
Without such a monumental hangover that rainy morning, Store Detective Barney Cunard might have chuckled at the naked clothes dummy so bawdily displayed on his desk. But the subsequent discovery of the very nude, very real and very dead body of Nora Gleason in the green-hued window of Westervelt's Department Store was no joke. Illustrated.

Hardcover w/dust jacket:
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166 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073584

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ISBN 978-1987073577

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Half-Past Mortem
Written under one of Bellem's pen names--John A. Saxon--it is a sequel to "Liability Limited".
Said Dick Lane, "You don't need a lawyer, Sam. You need a magician to get you out of this jam." Sam Welpton had been called to investigate a road accident; there was a dent on the car, blood on the road, but no victim. Before he had solved this mystery, Sam found himself married to a woman he scarcely knew and spending his honeymoon in jail. To complicate things still further, a man was found dead in his hotel room and an attempt was made on his own life. But it was Sam himself who sorted out the mess, and he was no magician, just an insurance claims expert with a flair for finding trouble.

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6 x 9 inch
254 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073614

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254 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073645

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Limited Liability
Written under one of Bellem's pen names--John A. Saxon--it is a prequel to "Half-Past Mortem".
"Just a routine assignment," the Los Angeles office told Sam Welpton, insurance investigator and claims adjuster. But what they didn't tell him was that this job, which began as an accident claim investigation, would turn into a murder case--with Sam the most likely suspect.

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198 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073607

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ISBN 978-1987073591

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Blue Murder
Duke Pizzatello, private investigator, was employed by the Kohlar brothers, Steve and Joe. Dixie Parker was the private secretary of Steve Kohlar. Gertie Kohlar was the wife of Joe and was an eye-full. Nelia Mason, wife of Dr. Carney Mason, was seeking evidence on the infidelity of her husband with his nurse, Myra Holly. Dr. Mason's partner, Dr. Sebring, also had a crush on the nurse. Then all hell broke loose. Dr. Mason was found dead with a bullet through his brain and a naked, skinned, female was found dead on his examination table and Duke Pizzatello was up to his throat in crime and underdressed women.

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164 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073768

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ISBN 978-1987073744

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No Modest Mayhem
Adventures of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective and Master Sleuth of Tinseltown in a book-length adventure.

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130 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073775


Killer's Ruse and Other Stories
Six stories by Robert Leslie Bellem from Super-Detective, Private Detective, and Fifth Column Stories. This collection includes "Killer's Ruse", "Murder On Furlough", "Wire Trap", "Dead Mike", "A Corpse Can't Croon", and "Enough Glory". Fully illustrated with the original artwork from their magazine appearances.

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ISBN 978-1987073782

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Knife in the Dark and Other Stories
Thirteen stories by Robert Leslie Bellem from a variety of magazines such as Gay Parisienne, Snappy, Spicy Detective, and more. This collection includes "Blood for the Vampire Dead", "Shanghai Jester", "The Cock Crows Murder", the title story "Knife in the Dark", "Fatal Allure", "Paulette Poses", "Grappling Trilby", "Badgering Bickford", "Never Say Dice!", "The Fall of Frisco Eddie", "Night Scene", "Too Many Diamonds", and "Live Bait". Fully illustrated with the original artwork from their magazine appearances.

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218 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073799

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DOCTOR OF LESBOS
Anthony Gordon (Robert Leslie Bellem)
She told her husband that too much sex was unhealthy ... but in the lonely darkness of her separate bedroom she was ravaged by a profane passion that society has always refused to accept!

JO CARLIN was beginning to feel a new kind of longing ... but not for her husband or any other man.

DR. JOAN BRENT specialized in the treatment of neurotic women ... and for Jo's ailment she prescribed a forbidden remedy!

AL CARLIN was still young, handsome, strong. What was he supposed to do if his wife tried to ration his love-making?

COLLEEN BRENSTON was the desirable, lonely widow of Al's best friend. Sooner or later she and Al were bound to work out their emotional problems ... together!

MICHAEL CRIDLUND was ruthless with women. He taught Jo that she really did enjoy normal physical desires after all-but was there still enough time to rescue her marriage?

Hardcover w/dust jacket:
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126 pages
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ISBN 978-1987073829

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ISBN 978-1987073805

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THE SEX LADDER
Anthony Gordon (Robert Leslie Bellem)

FREE LOVE! FREE LIQUOR! FREE LUST!

That's what modern girls go in for, as far as Janie could tell. She went and did likewise — living and loving like crazy in order to get herself and her friends ahead. At the same time, she deeply relished the kicks and thrills. What could be more heavenly than to be in the arms of feverishly excited men? It was just a matter of helping them — if they would help her . . .

A NOVEL THAT ANSWERS EVERY QUESTION THE UNMARRIED GIRL ASKS HERSELF — AND SOME QUESTIONS HER FUTURE HUSBAND WILL ASK!

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ISBN 978-1987073850

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ISBN 978-1987073836

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