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

Other Various Cover From Around the World

Brazil
Publicado Pela Edicoes De Ouro
1961

Finland
Valpas-Mainos 
1963

France
Gallimard 
1970

France
 Gallimard
1981

Japan
Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book 
1965

Mexico
Diana 
1961

Netherlands
Middernacht 
1962



Notes
 This title was originally posted in April 2011 in a slightly different format. 

1 comment:

  1. Some revealing covers there. And the two alternate titles are interesting.

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