'Interjecting Valerie' is the fourteenth and final book of the Cloris and Amy sequence written by Robert W Marks under the pseudonym of John Colleton. It has a rather different air surrounding it compared with the earlier books, perhaps because Marks/Colleton was aware of the finality it represented. Uniquely, it makes many back-references to events and characters in the earlier books, and it even refers directly to some of these novels. Curiously, it refers to the only novel that appears under the authorship of Mark Ashley, which seems to have been another pseudonym of Colleton, 'Ring Twice To Enter'. It is here attributed to the book's narrator, Bill Benton. In this way, the book manages to tie up a few loose ends, although the plot is thereby made rather more meandering than usual. 'Valerie' here follows the general pattern of the series; she is a pulchritudinous actress to whom the screenwriter Bill Benton is directed for the twin purposes of her seduction and inveiglement into one of Cloris' movies. In this book, the two ends are very closely related, in that the resulting movie is apparently an explicit exposition of events in Benton's amorous exploits with the several women, including Melissa and the feminist politician Spagnola, who were introduced earlier. As Colleton's Cloris/Amy sequence has evolved, the machinations needed for Bill to achieve these two related ends can be observed to become increasingly protracted. Here, Benton's prowess in bed is reinforced prosthetically, to the considerable delight and admiration of his partners. The rather hasty ending to the novel is a further indication that, for possibly personal reasons, the sequence of novels was coming to a close. The novel lives up, however, to the high standard of the rest of the sequence, and rounds it off reasonably well, despite the patchy ending. ( )