John Colleton, the pseudonym of Robert Walter Marks, wrote about a dozen highly atmospheric novels set mostly in Charleston, South Carolina, where he died in 1993. Perhaps their ethereal tone and laid back love-making are an acquired taste, but they are delightfully redolent of warm lazy days of sexual intrigue. As with quite a few of the novels, ‘Between Cloris and Amy’, is the story of Bill Benton, a South Carolina author, and the intrigues he has with his aunt, Amy, and Cloris, a director of erotic art movies. The novel involves some complex interactions between the two key males in his stories, Bill and John Dellmore, both authors, as well as Jennifer, The Contessa, Larrine and others, quite apart from the two ladies of the title. John has the distinction of being married to Amy’s daughter, Alicia, which adds a certain spice to Bill’s dalliances. Amy’s predilection for being whipped makes further arousing contributions. Perhaps the principal focus is the development of the relationship between Amy and Cloris, but the plot of the book is essentially a leisurely ramble through the erotic possibilities of the characters, and the delight of the prose is as much in the anticipation as anywhere. ( )