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Vulgar Carter Brown

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Carter Brown achieved an international success as a best-selling pulp fiction author whose paperbacks wrapped in enticing, lurid covers quickly became immensely popular around the world. Brown's covers scream of mystery stories and seductive main characters inside a book. They are everything but boring; fairy tales for the grown-ups. They are colourful, dappled, and provocative. They are filled with picture perfect naked or scantily clothed women, bleeding corpses, big heavy guns and many promises of its obscene inner content. The way Carter Brown's front covers are illustrated is directly linked to his books' content. Even though the contemprorary reader might consider such illustrations to be vulgar but acceptable, for the audience of the

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