by Jack Thurston

Woman Chaser was originally published in 1962.  It was authored by Robert Turner, who wrote several pulp novels.  In 1948, he also wrote a how-to book for writers who were interesting breaking into the pulp market.  I found a review of it over at Rough Edges.

The cover art was done by Jack Thurston, who I profiled on this site back in 2017.  Like a lot of pulp covers from the era, this cover suggests more than it shows.  We see a middle aged man necking with a dark-haired woman but we don’t know if the woman is Fay or Angie or maybe even Myrna, Monica, or Juanita.  I guess she could be any woman from Angie to Zelda.  This is a cover that says buy the book and start reading to find out what happens when that white shirt and black pants and blue negligee are all on the floor.

I also like the way that the blurb plays into moral panic.  It’s not a book about Jack’s inability to stay faithful.  Instead, it’s “a novel about threat of today’s other women!”