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
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| Grant Roberts Cover |
Mavis Seidlitz gets stuck with a corpse that's too hot to handle
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| 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.
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| Barye Phillips Cover |
Various Other Publisher Covers
United Kingdom
New English Library
Four Square Books
March 1967
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| Cover photograph by Cambell MacCallum |
Australia
Horwitz Publications Inc
June 1959
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| Grant Roberts Cover |
Australia
Horwitz Publications Inc
As The Fabulous
September 1961
United States
New American Library
Signet Books
1966
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| 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
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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ReplyDeleteScott - 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.
ReplyDeleteI never realized how much could tell a lot about a country from the cover.
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