I'll Gamble On Love Gamble

The Love Gamble, by Harold Morrow, "The adventures in love of a girl who could be "all things to all men."


From the front flap:

Eleanor Curtis innocently flirted with danger and learned, to her sorrow, that all men were not to be trusted. She learned, too, that she possessed an abundance of what men termed "sex appeal." And, since men apparently laid their plans to ensnare unsuspecting girls, Eleanor decided to do the baiting and trapping herself. She would make other man pay for the injustice one her. She would discover what type of girl men seemed to desire, and she would thenceforth try to be that type! It would be a grand, gay game with her. "A man will do anything for the girl who knows how to handle him," Eleanor reflected. "No man is going to hurt me again. If there's any hurting to be done, I'm going to be the one to do it!"

How little Eleanor realized what she was putting herself in for! If she could have known how hopelessly, madly, men would fall in love with her... how easy it would prove to captivate them...

Here is a highly exciting tale of a self-appointed female "Don Juan" stringing three successful men along a merry path, each blissfully ignorant of the existence of the other two, until the crash comes -- and then, well...

I got this at a flea market this weekend, and while a vintage book like this, at just $2 and with a copyright date of 1932 is fun enough for me, what sent me over the edge was the min-review of sorts written on the jacket itself. In a tight ink script it reads, "No Good this story, Feb 4 1935.


I was excited before, but now I can hardly wait to read it! Will I agree with the previous owner? Is this a warning of content? Or a literary one?

About the author, Harold Morrow, aka Harold M. Sherman:

He wrote numerous books and magazine articles on a variety of subjects ranging from sports stories for boys to self‑help books, and books dealing with psychic phenomena and ESP. He also wrote many plays, some of which were produced on Broadway. The screenplay for the movie "Mark Twain" produced by Warner Brothers was also to his credit, as well as the movie "Are We Civilized." He was world renowned in the field of psychic research and conducted experiments with such prominent persons as Sir Hubert Wilkins, famous Artic explorer, Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University who coined the terms parapsychology and ESP, and astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Dust jacket art by SKRENDA or S K Renda, who I know nothing about other than was a popular illustrator of jackets.