📖 Beach City seemed a quiet, sleepy town. But beneath the facade, the town reeked with vice and corruption in high places... Not until gin-loving, woman-belting, muckraking Harry Mercer, star reporter on the Beach City Times, dug deep into the shadowy backgrounds of the town's best families and their sordid lives did the shocking truth emerge!MEET:CYNTHIA, The Rich Man's Wife -- lush, alluring, sexually deviant...GRACE, The proper Schoolmarm -- whose ABC's included a Book of Knowledge about the Facts of Life...FRANK, The Socialite Actor -- whose sexual aberrations were the Latest Twist...MARIA, The Latin Lady -- whose hot blood made men offer her everything -- but marriage...BESS, The Easy to Get Girl -- who desperately yearned for another chance -- and got it...