*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Something rather special this week as we present a complete set of the Baroness series, all eight books written about Penelope St John-Orsini, aka the Baroness. To the world a model, millionairess and international playgirl, but to a crack team of superspies she’s the chief -the deadliest of them all. She knows how to make it hot for a man – in bed or in action! Written by Paul Kenyon, a nom de plume for Donald Moffitt. The book synopses alone as shown below will give you a flavour for this series from the mid-1970s. Offered here as a complete set of eight, not individually.
PICTURED: COMPLETE SET OF THE BARONESS #1-8 £140 BY PAUL KENYON SOLD
Pocket Books 1974/75 All with cover art by Hector Gando; uniform editions
THE BARONESS #1: THE ECSTASY CONNECTION
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‘She likes her action fast…and her men one hundred proof!’
THE BARONESS #2: DIAMONDS ARE FOR DYING
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‘The Sexy Superspy tangles with modern-day Nazis deep in the Brazilian jungle!’
THE BARONESS #3: DEATH IS A RUBY LIGHT
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‘It’s America’s sexiest spy against a mad Chinese scientist and half the Red Army’
THE BARONESS #4: HARD-CORE MURDER
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‘The Sexy Superspy in a sizzling scenario of gangland warfare’
THE BARONESS #5: OPERATION DOOMSDAY
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‘The Sexy Superspy must save the world from a deadly lunar virus!’
THE BARONESS #6: SONIC SLAVE
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‘The Sexy Superspy in a scorching desert duel of sonic death’
THE BARONESS #7: FLICKER OF DOOM
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‘The Sexy Superspy in an ultraviolent clash with Arabic death’
THE BARONESS #8 BLACK GOLD
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‘The Sexy Superspy in a wildcat war against SPOLIER – and a slimy struggle for world domination’