Sunday, July 7, 2013

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter N

We are chugging, like a really fast moving train, along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are half way through with the Letter N. 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.

Carter Brown: N is for None But the Lethal Heart

Grant Roberts Cover
    Mavis Seidlitz gets stuck with a corpse that's too hot to handle

Grant Roberts Cover
 Mavis is keeping company with a corpse and she's got to get rid of him fast. She tries to bury him, lose him, and even gives him away. But he persists in haunting her. The cops are on her heels and a gang of hoods is breathing down her neck. And someone seems determined to wrap her up in a slinky shroud. But here is the sizzling scorcher: A red-hot tale of murder and mayhem, chills and spills, and the daffiest detective work this side of a dizzy blonde bombshell, named Mavis Seidlitz.


Barye Phillips Cover
  Various Other Publisher Covers

United Kingdom
New English Library
Four Square Books
March 1967
Cover photograph by Cambell MacCallum
 Australia
 Horwitz Publications Inc
 June 1959
Grant Roberts Cover
Australia
 Horwitz Publications Inc
As The Fabulous
September 1961
  United States
New American Library
Signet Books
 1966
Robert McGinnis Cover
 Russia
1992

   Japan
Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  
1962

Japan
Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  
1977

Netherlands
  Middernacht  
1962

Finland
Valpas-Mainos  
1967

Germany
Ullstein Bucher
1967

 Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)
 
Horwitz Publications Inc
Numbered Series #78 June 1959
Long Story Magazine #6 January 1960
International Edition #9 September 1961
(retitled as The Fabulous)
International Edition #64 April 1970
(back to original title)

New American Library
Signet Books
1st Printing (1694) August 1959
2nd Printing (1694) September 1959 
(Canada)
3rd Printing (D2849) 1966

Notes
This title originally posted in three parts in a slightly different format

From October 2010

From March 2011
 
From February 2012

4 comments:

  1. Wow, lots of different covers, and I like all of them. Except maybe the Russian one where the lady is caught in a net. Some really cool covers there.

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  2. Thanks for comment and the visit

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  3. Scott - Gotta love those pulp-y covers. But I think I like the Japanese one best. And the Signet one looks almost Nancy Drew-ish. Or maybe that's must me.

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  4. I never realized how much could tell a lot about a country from the cover.

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