The Top 5 Posts Of 2014
The top spot this year goes to........
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See you in 2015!
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
2014 Fiction Challenge Update
My update with the USA Fiction Challenge.
So far, 32 states and 34 titles.
I should be able to complete this in 2015
I should be able to complete this in 2015
Monday, December 29, 2014
The Ghost Of Nick Carter
Nick Carter Weekly
No 621
November 21, 1908
The Ghost Of Nick Carter
or The Secret of The Second Sight Seer
Street & Smith Publishers
New York City
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Twins
Twins
Two covers by Robert McGinnis
Germany Edition
None But The Lethal Heart
by Carter Brown
Ullstein Bucher
#1152
1967 Frankfurt Germany
1968 West Berlin Germany
ISBN 354 801152
Modesty Blaise
by Peter O'Donnell
Fawcett Crest Books
1965
R899
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 7
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #7
Presenting
So Cold, My Bed
by Sam S. Taylor
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| Cover by Robert Maguire |
Printing History
Written by Sam S Taylor
New American Library
Signet Books
#1247
1955
Friday, December 26, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 6
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #6
Presenting
The Venus Death
by Ben Benson
Printing History
Written by Ben Benson
The Venus Death
by Ben Benson
Printing History
Written by Ben Benson
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 5
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #5
Presenting
A Corpse For Christmas by Henry Kane
Printing History
Written by Henry Kane
Dell
#735
1953
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 4
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #4
Presenting
Dead Game by Michael Avallone
Printing History
Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999)
Dead Game by Michael Avallone
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| Cover by |
Printing History
Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999)
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Girls with Guns Day 3
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #3
Presenting
Baby Your Type's Murder
by Marc Brody
Printing History
Written by W. H. ‘Bill’ Williams
Horwitz Publications Inc.
for and on behalf of Transport Publishing Company
February 1958
Monday, December 22, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 2
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #2
Presenting
So Dead The Rose
by M.E. Chaber
Printing History
Written by
by M.E. Chaber
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Written by
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 1
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #1
Presenting
Carter Brown Collectors' Series #8
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| Cover by Gene Lett |
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
copyright
1955
Transport Publishing Company
for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inccopyright
1955
Saturday, December 13, 2014
USA Fiction Challenge: Rhode Island
Today is anther stop in the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge. The goal is to stop on every state and showcase a title from that state. It looks like I will not be wrapping this up this year, but hope to come close. The next stop is our smallest state of Rhode Island. And also called State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Presenting
The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike
The story, set in the fictional Rhode Island
town of Eastwick in the late 1960s It follows the witches Alexandra
Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont, who have acquired their powers
after leaving or being left by their husbands. Their coven
is upset by the arrival of a devil-like character, Daryl Van Horne. This
mysterious Daryl seduces each of the women, encouraging them to play
with their powers and creating a scandal in the town.
Printing History
Written by John Updike (1932-2009)
Knoft
ISBN 394 53760
April 1984
April 1984
In 1987 the novel was adapted into a film starring Jack Nicholson as Darryl, Cher as Alexandra, Susan Sarandon as Jane, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Sukie
Friday, December 12, 2014
Donavan's Day by Carter Brown
Death's Head
It looked like a plain brown package, but what it contained was more explosive than a bomb. Either someone had a bizarre sense of humor, or they just liked to send Paul Donavan, international playboy and meddler in revolutions, the gruesomely grimacing heads of hired terrorists. But Paul was not going to sit around waiting for the next shipment of corpses. Especially when a wealthy brunette beauty volunteered to help him dispose of the terrorists, heads and all. So Donavan, along with two buxom babes and a well trained muscle man, decided to pay the kingpin of killers a surprise visit. be he didn't know who the real kingpin was. And if he did not find out fast, Paul could really lose his head....!
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
copyright 1975
Horwitz Group Books Pty Ltd
Hong Kong
Horwitz Publications Inc
1976
copyright 1975
Horwitz Group Books Pty Ltd
Hong Kong
Horwitz Publications Inc
1976
New American Library
Signet Books
ISBN 451 Y6716
Signet Books
ISBN 451 Y6716
October 1975
Monday, December 8, 2014
You Never Know With Women by James Hadley Chase
He could have quit when he met the sleep walker stripper.
Now it was too late.
He was wanted for murder!
It was sucker bait and he took it!
Floyd Jackson, private investigator and sometime blackmailer, was out of a license and out of dough. So, when he was offered ten crisp hundred dollar bills, he decided to take them. Even though the assignment was robbery. All he had to do was get past some man hungry dogs, break into a millionaire's castle and steal a gold compact. Jackson was smart enough to know it was a phoney proposition. But he didn't figure he'd run into a murder that could be pinned on him.
Printing History
Written by René Lodge Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985)
Jarrolds Publishers Ltd.
January 1949
Simon & Shuster Inc
Pocket Books
ISBN 671 75716
August 1972
Jarrolds Publishers Ltd.
January 1949
Simon & Shuster Inc
Pocket Books
ISBN 671 75716
August 1972
Saturday, December 6, 2014
USA Fiction Challenge: New Jersey
The next stop on our journey to visit each and every state is the Garden State or New Jersey.
Unbalanced Accounts
by Kate Gallison
The year was 1977, when everybody smoked in the office, nobody earned a
living wage, bosses called their clerks "my girls", and any idiot could
get a job with the State of New Jersey. Onto this scene came
down at heel Trenton divorce detective Nick Magaracz. Nick is looking for nine
thousand dollars in stolen welfare checks and solving this case looked like
a lead-pipe cinch, until the bodies began to fall.
Printing History
Written by Kathleen Gallison Dunn (1939- )
Little Brown and Company
ISBN 316 30288
April 1986
Little Brown and Company
ISBN 316 30288
April 1986
Friday, December 5, 2014
The Dame by Carter Brown
A film star, a corpse,
and a swimming pool make trouble for Al Wheeler
Police Lt Al Wheeler is out to stop the curvy blonde movie queen being cast in a fatal part. She is Hollywood's hottest property but somebody's cast her as a cold corpse.
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| Barye Phillips Cover |
Stand in for Death
The
flaxen haired blonde was very beautiful and very naked, except for the
knife she wore in her back. She made a honey of a corpse even though she
was the wrong girl for the part. And when the killer discovered the
mistake and realized the scene needed to be shot again. California cop
Al Wheeler was already on the killer's trail, ready to ring down the
curtain on this lethal killer before the killer made some other beauty
take her final bow.
Printing History
Australia (February 1962)
UK (September 1966)
Australia (June 1977)
Russia (1992)
Mexico (1963)
Finland (1961)
Netherlands (1962)
Murder in the Cast
The husband: He's a philandering mate, a ham actor, a handsome heel.
The husband's mistress: She's a volcanic brunette in the suggestion of a bikini.
The would be producer: He;s a small man with big, big plans.
The wealthy financier: He was devoted his life to the mad pursuit of money.
Each
of these four people had his or her own special reason for wanting to
see Judy Manner dead. One of them tried once and will try again, in his
or her own sweet time. In this fast paced scorcher, Police Lieutenant Al
Wheeler plans a murder to catch a murderer.
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| Grant Roberts/Robert McGinnis Cover |
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
Horwitz Publications Inc
Numbered Series #82 Oct 1959
Long Story Magazine #8 March 1960
International Edition #13 Feb 1962
International Edition #66 1970, June 1977
New American Library
Signet Books
Signet Books
1st (1738) November 1959
2nd December 1959(Canada)
3rd (D2827) 1965
4th (Q6402) 1974
Four Square Books
1st (1614) September 1966
Bonus CoversAustralia (February 1962)
UK (September 1966)
Australia (June 1977)
Russia (1992)
Mexico (1963)
Finland (1961)
Netherlands (1962)
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Miss Callaghan Comes To Grief by James Hadley Chase
Banned in the UK
Author and Publisher Fined
Not of any particular
Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who have disappeared
from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and are seen no more by those
who knew and loved them. This is also the story of Raven, who played
with clockwork trains, the leader of the White Slave Ring in East St.
Louis, who was responsible for the keeping to full strength the army of
women for the service of men.
Printing History
Written by René Lodge Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985)
copyright 1941
Black Curtain Press
May 2013
Bonus Covers
France (1996)
Blackmask.com (2010)
Kindle (2013)
Monday, December 1, 2014
Goldfinger (1964)
50th Anniversary
James Bond investigates gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger and the eventual uncovering of Goldfinger's plans to attack the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
Cast
Sean Connery as James Bond
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger
Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson
Harold Sakata as Oddjob
Tania Mallet as Tilly Masterson
Bernard Lee as M
Cec Linder as Felix Leiter
Martin Benson as Mr. Solo
Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger
Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson
Harold Sakata as Oddjob
Tania Mallet as Tilly Masterson
Bernard Lee as M
Cec Linder as Felix Leiter
Martin Benson as Mr. Solo
Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Singapore Sling by Jack Garside
A Ruthless Drug Lord Keeps N3
And His Sultry Partners On The Run....
Killmaster #258
Somewhere in the tumultuous streets of Singapore, two agents have been cornered by the cities most notorious hit men. and it's up th Nick Carter and his action hungry partner, a luscious CIA bombshell, to get them out alive. But AXE Agent N3 takes on more than he bargained for fighting Fat Chen, leader of the deadliest espionage drug ring in the East. Chen's got high tech weapon power at his command, and Quang, a Soviet pawn, at his side. The ultimate test stands before Nick. Can he infiltrate Chen's deadly circle, and survive a living hell?
Printing History
Written by Jack Garside (1924- )
Berkley Publishing Group
Jove Books
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
ISBN 515 10248
February 1990
Saturday, November 29, 2014
You're Lonely When You're Dead by James Hadley Chase
Her Kisses Were A Prelude To Death
"Don't you ever play?"
Anita Pitts voice was low and husky "Sure," said Malloy, "but not with the wives of my clients." Anita smiled mockingly. She moved close to him and put her arms around his neck. "My husband doesn't care a fig for me." she purred. Before Malloy could stop her she was kissing him with cool, experienced lips. Vic Malloy, private cop, had been hired by millionaire John Pitt to watch his wife, Anita. So far it seemed like a routine case of a doting husband trying to keep his kleptomaniac wife out of trouble Suddenly Anita vanished, and one of Vic's aides was brutally killed And Pitt denied that he ever hired Malloy. Then Malloy found that his case of wife spying had all at once become a deadly tangle of blackmail, blonde dynamite, and Murder!
Printing History
Written by René Lodge Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985)
copyright 1950
Duel Sloan, and Pearce
Popular Library
#378
October 1951
Friday, November 28, 2014
Honey, Here's Your Hearse! by Carter Brown
Mavis Seidlitz Story
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| Cover by Bernard Blackburn |
She's slaying them in the aisles for peanuts
till death swings from a high wire to change her tactics......
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
Transport Publishing Company
for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, IncNovel Series
July 1955
Second Collectors' Series
Volume 1 Number 4
July 1957
w/The Two-Timing Blonde
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Homicide Hoyden by Carter Brown
I don't want to play "Murder" with a
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| Cover by Bernard Blackburn |
5 million bucks and her taking ways got this dame everything but a murder rap.
She figured Scott Denton could take that....
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
Novel Series
1955
Second Collectors' Series
Volume 1 No 3
w/Curtain For A Chorine
July 1957
Reprint By Demand Series
#28
1960
Transport Publishing Company
for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, IncNovel Series
1955
Second Collectors' Series
Volume 1 No 3
w/Curtain For A Chorine
July 1957
Reprint By Demand Series
#28
1960
Sunday, November 23, 2014
The Big Sleep (1946)
Bogart And Bacall
Directed by Howard Hawks
The first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel.
Cast
Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe
Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge
John Ridgely as Eddie Mars
Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood
Peggy Knudsen as Mona Mars
Regis Toomey as Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls
Charles Waldron as General Sternwood
Charles D. Brown as Norris
Bob Steele as Lash Canino
Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge
John Ridgely as Eddie Mars
Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood
Peggy Knudsen as Mona Mars
Regis Toomey as Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls
Charles Waldron as General Sternwood
Charles D. Brown as Norris
Bob Steele as Lash Canino
Dorothy Malone as Acme Bookstore proprietress
Private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of his new client General Sternwood. The wealthy retired general wants to resolve gambling debts
his daughter, Carmen, owes to bookseller Arthur
Gwynn Geiger. As Marlowe is leaving, General Sternwood's older daughter,
Mrs. Vivian Rutledge, stops him. She suspects her father's
true motive for calling in Marlowe is to find his young friend Sean
Regan, who had mysteriously disappeared a month earlier.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
USA Fiction Challenge: New York
The 2014 USA Fiction Challenge is heading to the home stretch. This time we
visit the state of New York as well as the city of New York. The highlight will be Valerie Frankel's A Body To Die For.
Investigating the suspected infidelities of a former tennis pro's wife,
private detective Wanda Mallory becomes an unlikely member of an elite
health club, where she uncovers a series of other crimes, including
murder.
Printing History
Written by Valerie Frankel
Simon & Shuster, Inc
Pocket Books
ISBN 671 79520
July 1995
E Book
August 2010
Kindle Edition
February 2011
E Book
August 2010
Kindle Edition
February 2011
Friday, November 21, 2014
The Art Of Robert E. McGinnis by Robert E McGinnis and Art Scott
A Modern Master
Robert E. McGinnis began his career in 1947 as a cartoonist, and produced his first cover illustrations for 1956 issues of the magazines True Detective and Master Detective. Then in 1958, he painted his first paperback book cover, and from that day forward his work was in demand.
The emergence of the “McGinnis Woman”, long-legged, intelligent, alluring, and enigmatic, established him as the go-to artist for detective novels. His work appeared on Mike Shayne titles and the Perry Mason series, and he produced 100 paintings for the Carter Brown Mystery Series. Yet McGinnis became famous for his work in other genres as well: espionage, romance, historicals, gothics, and Westerns.
McGinnis’s first major magazine assignments were for The Saturday Evening Post, and his work has graced the pages of Cosmopolitan, National Geographic, Good Housekeeping, Guideposts, and others. McGinnis women frequently cropped up in the men’s magazines of the ’60s and ’70s.
His first movie poster was for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, with an iconic rendering of Audrey Hepburn. Almost instantly, his poster artwork could be seen everywhere, in theaters, on billboards, in newspapers, and even on soundtrack albums. His work for Hollywood became a who’s-who, with posters for James Bond, The Odd Couple, Woody Allen, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and many more.
Some of his most ambitious works have been his gallery paintings, often depicting stunning American landscapes, vast Western vistas, and of course, beautiful women. The Art of Robert E. McGinnis collection reveals the full scope and beauty of the work of a true American master—one whose legacy continues today.
Printing History
Robert McGinnis (1926- )
Art Scott
Titan Books
1st Edition
November , 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
La Embrujadora by Carter Brown
Mexican Edition of
The House of Sorcery
Editorial Diana #436
Mexico City
1st Edition October 1968
2nd Edition January1971
US and UK Editions
House Of Sorcery by Carter Brown
Australian Edition
House of Sorcery (Horwitz) by Carter Brown
House Of Sorcery by Carter Brown
Australian Edition
House of Sorcery (Horwitz) by Carter Brown
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Isle Of Blood by Jack Canon
N3 On A Deadly Manhunt For The
World's Most Wanted Terrorist!
Killmaster #257
After decades of violence, the Geek and Turkish factions of Cyprus are on the verge of peace. But when three key negotiators are suddenly murdered, the delicate diplomatic process is shattered. Nick Carter knows the body count has just begun, because the mastermind behind the killings is Drago Vain. The most vicious terrorist in the files of Interpol Vain is poised to seize control of Cyprus in a savage coup. Nick must stop the assassin's takeover at any cost, or the Mediterranean will run red with blood!
Printing History
Written by Jack Canon
Berkley Publishing Group
Jove Books
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
ISBN 515 10217
January 1990
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
USA Fiction Challenge: New Mexico
The game is on in the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge. This time around we visit the Southwest, New Mexico to be exact. The highlight this time will be Tony Hillerman's The Blessing Way
The Blessing Way
by Tony Hllerman
Introducing Joe Leaphorn
When
Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Navajo Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a
mouth full of sand at a crime scene seemingly without tracks or clues,
he is ready to suspect a supernatural killer. Blood on the rocks...A
body on the high mesa...Leaphorn must stalk the Wolf-Witch along a
chilling trail between mysticism and murder.
Printing History
Written by Tony Hillerman (1925-2008)
copyright
1990
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