 "Ringside
Jezebel"
by Kate Nickerson
Original Novels, 1953
The back cover reads:
"BRUTE MEN AND EAGER WOMEN. Women and sweat are the rewards of a fighter
who makes the grade...sometimes his only rewards. The sweat comes naturally.
The women flock around the ringsides, the dressing-room doors, eager for
the tough of a successful fighter's hard muscles and surging manhood...and
the money he makes in an evening and spend the same night...The sweat does
a man good. The women are often his ruin, the most deadly pleasures, the
most poisonous delights a man can get himself involved in...That's the
kind of girl Terry was...a girl with the smell of battling men in her pretty
nostrils, the taste of their kisses on her beautiful lips, the feel of
their money in her dainty hands. When Jimmy Biddle met Terry his career
as a prizefighter reached its peak...and so did his life as a man...because
nobody who met Terry was ever the same again." Ahhhh...the ringside romance.
The gangster's moll who is used to lure a good fighter into the fix of
the heavyweight boxing scene. But wait! After she sends him down this path,
she feels guilt and tries to save him before he's forced to throw the big
fight. It's a woman who's emotional swings pack more of a punch than a
left-right combination.
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