Monday, June 24, 2013

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

Part 2 of the Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 Letter L

Carter Brown: L is for The Lady Is Transparent

Meet the only beauty who won't succumb to Al Wheeler's charms:
Delia- a wanton witch who must be about her business....of murder

   


Even Al Wheeler can't make this gorgeous ghost forget that her pleasure is murder   
Robert McGinnis Covers

A gabled mansion on Bald Mountain. A deserted room with its windows boarded, its door locked from the inside. And in the room the corpse of an unsuccessful suitor, his throat savagely and efficiently torn out. California cop Al Wheeler come to Bald Mountain to investigate the murder and finds himself the unwelcome guest of the Harvey Family.

   


Ellis
 His two luscious dark-haired daughters, Justine and Martha. 
Well traveled, money seeking Uncle Ben
 and the family ghost Delia, a passionate wanton who is a Spectre of Death.


Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc
Numbered Series #101 1962
International Edition Series #52 1967

New American Library
Signet Books
S2148 July 1962
S2148 Canada
D3251 September 1967
D3251 September 1967 (Canada)
P4344 1970

Other Various Covers

Middernacht-Serie #53
Netherlands
n/d
 
  
Wennerberg 
Stockholm Sweden
1962
  

Valpas-Mainos 
Finland
1965


Gallimard  
Paris
1963,1978


Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  
Tokyo Japan
1963

Die Mitternachtsbucher
Germany and Switzerland
1964, 1976 

Russia
n/d

Note
This title was originally posted in a slightly different form in April 2011 and February 2012
The Lady Is Transparent

The Lady Is Transparent Dutch Edition

2 comments:

  1. I was confused there for a minute. I especially like the top one and the Robert McInnis covers right below it.

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  2. Those earlier covers are much more striking than the photo covers.

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