Sex and the Stewardess — Lawrence Block

In the wake of the great popular success of Coffee, Tea, or Me (purportedly by a pair of personable airline hostesses, but actually written by the equally personable Donald Bain), Irwin Stein of Lancer Books asked John Warren Wells to turn his attention to the same topic. Would that all requests from publishers were as pleasantly fulfilled.

Here's the blurb that appeared on the Lancer edition:

“Did she serve you yesterday?

“She is every man's dream mistress, pleasant and poised, cool under stress, always smiling and--because she is booked on another flight tomorrow morning--disposable...

“Lynn, the Now Girl; Tracy, the Damn Good Kid; Shirl, the Lesbian in the sky; Lauren, the Swinger; Rona, the Freak-Out; Bambi, the Old Maid; Gillian, the Hooker; Kim, the Hound.

“In a book that picks up where ‘Coffee, Tea, or Me?' left off, eight major airline stewardesses show you the down-to-earth reality behind the dream: the with-whoms, wheres, and astonishing hows in the everyday sex lives of America's most glamorous working girls.”

Oh, Irwin. They're stewardesses with major airlines, not major airline stewardesses. Never mind...