The Nick Carter & Carter Brown Blog: Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter L...Part One

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter L...Part One

We are chugging, like a fast moving train, along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are up to the letter L. Kerry's Blog is kind enough to sponsor this community meme each and every week. The rules are very simple: The posts must be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction. This time around I will be featuring a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet. This week I had a difficult time deciding which title to showcase. So I decided to do a three part Letter L. For the next three days I will highlight a different Carter Brown title.

First up this week

Carter Brown: L is for The Lady Is/Not Available

She was the most talented pro in the whole art colony.
Her sex appeal was sheer genius and pure murder!

Bella made friends at the drop of a bikini. She was a beautiful Bohemian who wore the scantiest of bathing suits when she painted, and less when she entertained. Her uninhibited hospitality made it hard for Lieutenant Al Wheeler to keep business before pleasure. But he was a cop and he was there to ask questions about a murder.

An artist dies violently and Al Wheeler begins a deadly and dangerous case. A case that leads from an artist's studio to a tycoon's plush penthouse office. From a lovely wanton to a strait-laced society wife. From a mysterious picture to multiple death.

Robert McGinnis Cover

Who painted the lady without her clothes? When an oil tycoon commissions a young artist to do his wife's portrait, he hardly expected to see the finished product, perfect, pink-fleshed...and nude. It was too late for explanations. The artist lay dead beneath the easel, the picture was slashed with a cross of blood and the hysterical wife insisted she never took off her clothes.