My Flesh is Sweet (1951) – On the run in Mexico from the accidental killing of a drunken Mexican general, Ad Conners and Eleana Hayes must somehow make it back across the border to confront a decades-old secret that could destroy them both.

. . . Blinded with blood, stunned by the suddenness and fury of the attack, Connors reached out with numbed fingers, groping through the red film to find his assailant.

And his fingers found flesh, bare flesh, soft flesh, flesh for a man to dream on.

This woman he held was the murderer, Connors knew, and he felt a moment’s sadness. For even though his very life was at stake, Connors did not want to know that this woman had killed—once, twice, three times. She was a woman for a man to love, he thought, and then the red film washed through his head, and he knew no more . . .

My Flesh is Sweet is a seventeen chapter novel first published in 1951.