Fiction

Showpiece
a novel by Woody Craft
cover illustration by Eric Stanton
An Original Wee Hours Book, WH527
Wee Hours Books, Inc.
Buffalo, New York
1967

digital replica

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Jim Sperling's beautiful wife Carol is the showpiece of the title. When the story begins, her husband is the only man she's known on intimate terms. The first of their three years of marriage was great. In the past year, Jim spent so many weeks away from his wife, home and estate that Carol is lonely, horny and doesn't feel like a wife any more.

In Ben Framer's office to deliver a message, she sees a stallion giving stud service to a visiting mare. In her sex-deprived state, the animal-mating performance fascinates her, and Ben turns her arousal to his own advantage. Carol's heard about Ben's renown as ladies man. His expert technique and legendary male endowment make Carol a smiling believer. Their pleasure connection distracts Carol during Jim's absences.

Carol's pretty maid Doris introduces her to the pleasures of a woman's touch. Their relationship takes a few turns around the bedroom, in and out of under-things.

Carol has a close encounter with Calvin, the stable hand, but it's interrupted by intruders.

Jim hires an 18-year-old woman to be his traveling secretary. During their first months, all is proper. Then, they get drunk in Chicago and Ginny has her boss on his knees in a hotel suite. Ginny's preference for the dominant role in her sexual theatrics introduces Jim to his own submissive nature, of which he had been unaware. In the “wicked daddy-daughter game” Ginny devises, she punishes him with leather-belt spankings for their pretend incest. But her sexual thirst can only be quenched with consecutive multiple partners.

Ben visits Carol and Carol visits Ben on numerous occasions. On one of these, Ben surreptitiously makes a film of their amorous soiree and uses it for blackmail.

When it comes to writing sex scenes, Woody Craft certainly knew his trade. Although observant of the somewhat oblique vocabulary required by 1960s convention, he skillfully describes anatomy, touching, sensations, and development of arousal. His straight and lesbian episodes create mood, describe mounting excitement, and expose thoughts consistent with personalities. In short, the sex scenes in Showpiece are all they should be, and a couple surprise with candid presentation of deviation.

While Mr. Craft identifies Carol's stockings, garter belts and high heels, they are mentioned merely as apparel worn by women in those days, not as fetish objects. In some scenes, the removal or installation of stockings is part of foreplay.

The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version. Editing corrects spelling, reduces some wordiness, divides long sentences into shorter sentences and eliminates superfluous punctuation.

Some might estimate that the minimum length of a novel is 50,000 words. Showpiece consists of 38,000 words.

With a cover painting by Eric Stanton, this 1967 classic tells a fast-moving story that exposes the multi-layered lusts of a neglected wife surrounded by men who desire her. After a lifetime of chastity and fidelity, we meet young Carol at the moment she opts for shaming debauchery. We find her discovering her own strange hungers in regions of gourmet sex, while other daring travelers take unexpected detours across kinky terrain into an underworld of dark desires.

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