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