The Nick Carter & Carter Brown Blog: Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter V: Part 2

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter V: Part 2

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with a few more weeks until the end. We are currently in week 22 with the letter V. 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: V is for The Victim


Barye Philips Cover

He was less than a grand husband alive and worth more than fifty grand, dead!

Three dolls and one corpse.

One was a merry widow with a new lease on life when her husband expired.

One was a luscious skip-tracer whose curves turned up in some unsavory joints.

One was a gorgeous receptionist who snapped to attention when a big girdle manufacturer purred.

as Walk Softly, Witch

as Eve It's Extortion

One or all of them knew whether it was an accident or a murder that converted a footloose husband into a rest-in-concrete corpse. And it's up to Lieutenant Al Wheeler to come up with an answer, fast!

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

Horwitz Publications Inc.
As Eve, Its Extortion

Numbered Series #40 May 1957

As Walk Softly Witch!

Numbered Series #75 March 1959

Long Story Magazine #6 April 1960

International Edition Series #7 September 1961

New American Library

Signet Books

As The Victim

#1633 March 1959

D2606 1964