Authors note: This is a standalone Tuttle story featuring an entirely fresh cast of characters. Those who are interested in what happens upstairs in a bordello will be disappointed. All of the “action” in this story happens down below - in the bordello basement. And I doubt readers will complain that the discipline portrayed here is too mild. Given the circumstances, I believe the balance between severity and what “working girls” would realistically expect is about right.
I believe the title page above (click on image for full size) is, in fact, from the very first printing of Nell. Prior to finding this edition, my earliest edition was printed that same year, but with a soft cover. There are some very minor differences:
1. Title page on hard cover edition has some lines printed in red ink. Soft cover is B&W.
2. Hard cover edition is missing the very last page #326
Fortunately, that missing page is identical to page #326 in the soft cover edition, so nothing really lost there. But then there are some major differences....
Almost three years ago, I posted a brief introduction to the Toronto tabloid "Justice Weekly". You can find that post by clicking here: JUSTICE WEEKLY
Yesterday by accident, I stumbled across this article written roughly 24 years after JUSTICE WEEKLY ceased publication: