Spicy

What happens when a repressed photographer, his box-shaped dog and a secret formula that makes flesh vanish come together?  Ask his hapless wife and the most depraved couple in New York City!

Thorne Smith does it again, with the tale of a statue come to life, a pool that is a veritable Fountain of Youth, a wealthy old man, his wife, and his mistress, a lusty French maid, a half-crazed Japanese butler, a seller of rare pornography and the local fire department,  and what happens when all these things come together.

Hilarity ensues when stuffy coffee magnate Peter Van Dyke, his frigid fiance Yolanda, his passionate secretary Josephine DuVal, a pickpocket and a Bishop are all lost on the fogbound Hudson Bay, and get taken prisoner by one of the maddest nudist colonies ever to remove clothing.

Alas, Thorne Smith did not finish this book before he died; it was taken up by Norman Matson.  The style is rather different, although there is still enough of Thorne Smith's racy humor to satisfy. 

 This book was made into a movie:  I MARRIED A WITCH

The sequel to TOPPER bring Cosmo Topper, longing for his old adventures with the ghosts of Marion and George Kirby, to the French Riviera.  Alas, since he has come with his stodgy wife, who has quickly acreted a circle of equally stodgy new friends around them, his closest brush with adventure comes with watching The German Model slowly losing more and more of her bathing outfit as she pursues a

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Publisher: Brava Kensington

Maria and David will keep you guessing at their relationship.  David seems like the typical male who hurts the woman really really bad.  Maria does come out of that pampered lifestyle quickly.