The Marine Corpse by William G Tapply

A Brady Coyne Mystery

The man is found on the icy streets of Boston, vomit in his beard, alcohol in his system, and ice in his veins. The police assume he is just another in the dozens of derelicts whom the urban winter claims each year, but Brady Coyne knows better. Attorney to New England’s upper crust, he was the dead man’s lawyer, and he knows that Stuart Carver was no bum: He was a senator’s nephew.

An author whose last book was so lousy that it became a bestseller, Carver was planning a serious novel, and was doing research on homelessness in the metropolis when he was killed. The icepick wound on his skull suggests he learned something that someone didn’t want to see in print. To find out who murdered his client, Brady will delve into an underworld that is even more cold, dark, and deadly than Boston in winter.

 

Printing History

written by William G. Tapply (1940–2009)

Charles Scribner's Sons

 BCE Edition (1986)

Ballantine Books (September 1987)

ISBN 345-34057

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter Z

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along as we come to the end of this time around. The week is the final week as we highlight the Letter Z. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise has hosted this community meme. Over at her blog she has outlined the rules that we follow every week. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post 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: Z is for Zelda

Dutch Cover by W Lapp (1963)

 The seductive star's sweet blackmailing scheme looked like being shot to pieces by one of her three ex-husbands.

Till murder took a hand in her game. Introducing new hero Rick Holman, Hollywood's Mr Fix-It. Rick was elected to dispose of the corpse or take the killer's rap for Zelda.

Robert McGinnis Cover

  To 10 million men Zelda Roxane was the supreme symbol of sophisticated sex. But to the general who masterminded a Latin American revolution, the ex-Nazi turned millionaire industrialist, the has-been producer about to pull the biggest deal of his life, the lecherous press agent whose advances she's scorned, Zelda meant disgrace...ruin...and death.

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

Horwitz Publications, Inc

 Numbered Series #96 December 1961

International Edition Series #32  June 1963

Double Edition Series #12A 1982

New American Library

Signet Books

S2033 December 1961

D3430 1968

Double Edition AE1629 July 1982

New English Library
Four Square Books
#659  1962

Other Various Covers

Australia 
Horwitz Publications, Inc

 1961

Denmark

Winther

n/d

Germany

 Die Mitternachtbucher 

1966

United States

Signet Books

July 1982

 

 Japan

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

1963

Finland

Valpas-Mainos 

1967

Notes

This title was originally posted in a slightly different formats.

Zelda from April 2011

Dutch Zelda from September 2011

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 from November 2012

The Penetrator by Troy Conway

When adventurer Rod Damon

The Coxeman

Meets a nympho Russian Soy

World peace hangs in the balance

And it's never been better hung!

When adventurer Rod Damon, The Coxeman, is sent to Moscow, he thinks it's just another routine assignment. After all, locating a missing British undercover agent and getting the facts on a new Russian versionof the H_Bomb are the sort of things Rod does every day. What he doesn't count on is the Countess. If Catherine was Great, Marie Antonetta Rubinov is greater. As a sex athlete she is unsurpassed. The raven-tressed Countess, who has been known to take on an entire regiment, is the ultimate Red secret weapon. When she and the Coxeman meet, it's on a king-sized extra-firm. Big Rod gets no rest with the beauty and he's up with the dawn. But will America's super swordsman survive or will his sword be foiled forever?

Coxeman #27

Printing History

Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999)

copyright 1971
Coronet Communications, Inc

Warner Books, Inc.

Warner Paperback Library

64-596
First Printing May 1971
Second Printing August 1972

The Moorland Monster by Glen Chase

Scotland Yard asked Cherry to help them catch or kill a creature from hell

The Thing on The Moor

A frightful monster was terrorizing Bodmin Manor and Scotland Yard had not come up with any answers. Cherry Delight, top agent for D.U.E. (Department of Unusual Events) was vacationing in Britain and they asked her to help. Cherry couldn't  say no to her old pals at the Yard. Even so, it was no picnic chasing monsters on the dark, lonely moor. But Cherry accepts the assignment, as she does every assignment, like a real pro. 

 Printing History

written by Gardner F Fox (1911-1986)

All New Cherry Delight #2
Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
LB489DK (1977)

                

Killing Games by Jack Canon

Agent N3 Plays For Keeps In a Bloody Global Conspiracy

 

George Gross Cover

 Nick Carter Killmaster #228

They call him the Hunter. Once he worked free-lance for the CIA. Now he's a rogue killer, a jet-setting assassin with his finger on the trigger. Only Nick Carter can stop him. But are Agent N3's formidable skills a match for a madman-turned-traitor? Soon Nick is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. As a global conspiracy unravels with each bloody encounter, the only way to keep score is through a body count of unlucky losers.

Printing History

Written by Jack Canon

Berkley Publishing Group

Jove Books

Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

ISBN 515 09112

August 1987

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter Y

 The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just two more weeks left. We are currently in week 25 with the letter Y, next week is the big finale. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post 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: Y is for Yoga Shrouds Yolande

Bernard Blackburn Cover

  Yolande was a dream who had a vision. 

So they told her about the Trance of Death. 

Wake up baby, before..................

Printing History

 Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc
Novelette Series (February 1954)
First Collector's Series Volume 11 (1955)
w/ Felon Angel and Floozie Out of Focus
Second Collector's Series Vol 1 #14 (April 1958)
w/Cutie Cashed His Chips (US title The Million Dollar Babe)
Vintage Series #1 (1965)
w/Poison Ivy

Another Australian Cover

Notes
Somewhere between the originally printing and the First Collector's Series the title was slightly changed.

The Final Storm by Mack Maloney

Rising Up From Civilization's Rubble

He Is The Last Hope Of A Nuclear Ravaged America!

Freedom is reborn. The nuclear nightmare that reduced the U.S. to radioactive rubble is now history. And a fearless ace fighter pilot has taken to the skies to lead his crippled nation down the fiery road to recovery. He is Hawk Hunter, "Wingman" keeping alive the indomitable spirit  of an almost forgotten dream called "America!" The North American continent has been wrested from the brutal grasp of the Soviet warlords. But deep in the frozen Siberian wastes, last ditch elements of the Evil Empire plan to annihilate the Free World in one last final rain of nuclear death. Trading his sleek F-16 fighter jet for a larger, heavier B-1B supersonic swing-wing bomber, Hawk Hunter undertakes his most perilous mission. An impossible 6,000 mile solo bombing run deep into the lethal, impenetrable heart of the enemy's homeland! Waging an awesome battle from the cockpit of the last of the "Ghostriders." Only the Wingman can save his doomed country from extinction, but it will almost cost him his life!

Wingman #6

Printing History

written by Brian Kelleher

copyright 1989

Kensington Publishing Corp

Zebra Books

ISBN 8217 2655

4th Printing August 1989

Wonder Women (TV Series)

Wonder Woman is an American television series based on the DC Comics comic book superheroine. 

 

Starring Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince

Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor Sr & Jr

The show originally aired from November 7, 1975 to September 1979.

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter X

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just three weeks left. We are currently in week 24 with the letter X. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post 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.

Unfortunately there is not a valid Carter Brown title with the letter X in it. 

So the next best is from another author.

J.J. Henderson: X is for X Dames

A Lucy Ripken Mystery

New York writer/photographer Lucy Ripken gets lucky when an old friend calls with fabulous job offer. Come to LA to work on a new reality TV show called The X Dames. The TV show features a shifting cast of curvaceous female athletes competing in extreme sports. Bored in New York and slightly desperate for a paying job, Lucy jumps at the chance and makes a move to Southern California. Soon she finds herself en route to Mexico’s Pacific coast, to the small but booming resort town of Sayulita, location for the show’s premiere event: a women’s surfing contest. Gigantic surf, real estate shenanigans, and a mysterious death by drowning combine to transform the reality show into a real-time investigation of murder in the high waves. With video cameras recording everything for the upcoming premiere of The X Dames, Lucy and her pals soon find themselves deeply enmeshed in uncovering a conspiracy involving crooked real estate dealers, corrupt politicians, and an old nemesis returning from one of Lucy’s earlier adventures.

Printing History

J.J. Henderson 

Vanguard Press

CDS Books

copyright 2006

ISBN 1 59315 289

September 2006

The Pleasures Of Cloris by John Colleton

A frankly sexual novel of shameless debauchery

Printing History

written by Robert W Marks (1908-1993)

New American Library 

Signet Books

copyright

May 1974
ISBN 451 12938
14th Printing

3rd Anniversary

Today is this blog's 3rd Anniversary.

The very first post.

 First Post

Hogan's Heroes (Season One)

Hogan's Heroes 

The Complete First Season

Starring

Bob Crane (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978)

Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000)

John Banner (January 28, 1910 – January 28, 1973)

Richard Dawson (November 20, 1932 – June 2, 2012)

Ivan Dixon (April 6, 1931 – March 16, 2008)

Larry Hovis (February 20, 1936 – September 9, 2003)

Robert Clary (March 1, 1926- )

Cynthia Lynn (April 2, 1936- )

Leon Askin (September 18, 1907 – June 3, 2005)

Howard Caine (January 2, 1926 – December 28, 1993)

Season One

September 17, 1965 to April 29, 1966.

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter W: Part Three

 The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just four weeks left. We are currently in week 23 with the letter W. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post 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: W is for Where Did Charity Go?

Minsk 1996

 A Hollywood harridan and her soused spouse typecast Rick Holman in a flick with a fatal finale!

Robert McGinnis Cover

  Rick Holman knew Claudia was also the leading lady who wrecked Earl Raymond's rocky marriage and rang the curtain down on his dying career. Hollywood's most sensational divorce ended in an enormous monetary settlement for Raymond's daughter, Charity. But before the funds could be paid, Charity was kidnapped, or so Raymond claimed. Rick's one hot lead quickly turned cold, dead cold! But the clues multiplied and suddenly they all pointed to a sordid solution. Someone would go to lethal lengths to keep the cash from going to Charity.

Horwitz 1971

Denmark 1972

 Printing History

 Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Numbered Series #156 September 1971

ISBN 7255 0135

New American Library

Signet Books
T4455 December 1970

Note
This title was originally published on  June 23, 2011 in a sightly different format.
Where Did Charity Go? 

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter W: Part Two

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just four weeks left. We are currently in week 23 with the letter W. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post 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: W is for The Wanton

Two beautiful nude corpses leave Lieutenant Al Wheeler in the middle of a society family's scandal 

 

Barye Philips Cover

  The beautiful blonde heiress was living high and fast until a killer slowed her down 

Robert McGinnis Cover

   When a pretty blond heiress is found hanging from a limb of a tree, twenty feet off the ground, wearing nothing but skin tight rope around her pretty neck...Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler goes into action. The rough and tough detective trades questions and answers with a volcanic brunette in a sultry couch session. Matches techniques with a gambler who knows all about feminine angles. Dodges the bullets of a killer who seems determined to build the largest collection of naked corpses in sunny California. 

Grant Roberts Cover

   Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #79 August1959

Long Story Magazine #5 December 1959

International Edition Series #10 December 1961, March 1965

New American Library Series

Signet Books (USA and Canada)

1st (1713) Sept 1959

2nd (1713) Canada 1959

3rd (D2962) 1966

New English Library

Four Square Books

1st (2252) Sept 1968

Other Covers 

UK

New English Library

 Four Square Books

 Sept 1968

Brazil

Publicado Pela Edicoes De Ouro

n/d

 

France

Gallimard

1960, 1971

 

Netherlands

 Middernacht

1962

 

Estonia

Katariina 

 1998

Russia

n/d

Germany/Switzerland

 Die Mitternachtbucher 

1962

 Germany/Austria

 Die Mitternachtbucher

 1974

Japan

 Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book 

1968

 

Notes

This title was originally published on  March 23, 2011 in a sightly different format.

The Wanton 

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter W: Part One

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just four weeks left. We are currently in week 23 with the letter W. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post 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: W is for The Wayward Wahine

The seductive rhythm of an exotic Hawaiian girl's primitive hula dance lures 

Danny Boyd into the arms of a killer.

Barye Philips Cover

  She was one hundred per cent impure Hawaiian. From her long and lustrous black hair to her small and delicate feet which moved as her whole body moved in a passionate pagan rhythm. With a sensuous gesture she stepped out of her grass skirt and into Danny Boyd's love life.

Robert McGinnis Cover

 On the sunny shares of beautiful Hawaii, private Danny Boyd goes hunting for a wealthy tycoon's missing wife. The trail starts out cold with a dead blonde, warms up with some buried treasure, and sizzles when Danny comes into close contact with a wahine who is wayward, wanton, and oh so willing to pitch woo Hawaiian style. With the curves and kisses and no holds barred. 

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

 

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #84 February 1960
Long Story Magazine #11 June 1960

International Edition Series #16 April 1962

as The Wayward

International Edition Series #69 February 1971

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition CB 007A 1980
w/Walk Softly, Witch

New American Library

Signet Books

#1784 February 1960

#D3067 1966

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition  #9418 Sept 1980
w/Walk Softly, Witch

East Of Hell by David Hagberg

Agent N3 Hunts Down Asia's Most Savage Assassin

 

George Gross Cover

 Killmaster #227

Hong Kong has been rocked by a series of brutal assassinations. First the trade commissioner is blown sky high. Then a Chinese ambassador is strangled. And a beautiful seductive AXE agent dies by the knife. As the body count climbs, Nick Carter, Killmaster, sets out on a desperate manhunt after a deadly and elusive killer. Through Hong Kong's teeming streets and labyrinthian back alleys, Nick Carter stalks his human prey. If he fails, Far East diplomacy will suffer a crushing blow. 

Printing History

Written by David Hagberg

Berkley Publishing Group

Jove Books

Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

ISBN 515 09055

July 1987

Notes
New cover design. 
Same publisher but different imprint.