This is the place to showcase my book collection of primarily of Nick Carter and Carter Brown books. I started collecting with these two authors back in 1980 while on a fishing trip with my father and grandfather to Northern Minnesota.
Sam McCloud is a Deputy U.S. Marshal from Taos, New Mexico. He goes to
New York to find an escaped criminal, and there falls for reporter Chris
Coughlin, who is the cousin of the deputy police commissioner. After he
tracks the criminal down, Chris convinces her cousin to request that
Sam be assigned to temporary duty with the NYPD, to learn modern police
methods. He is assigned to the detective bureau headed by Chief Peter B.
Clifford, who is less than thrilled with having McCloud under his
command and gives him nothing but menial duties But Sam always winds up
deep in homicides, drug busts and various other major crimes, often
helped out by Sgt. Joe Broadhurst, and solves them using a combination
of good police work and good old country know-how.
Cast
Created by Herman Miller (1919-1999)
Dennis Weaver (1924-2006) as Sam McCloud
J.D. Cannon (1922-2005) as Chief Peter B. Clifford
Scene of the Crime was a mystery anthology series that aired in 1991 and 1992 on the CBS television network as part of the Crimetime After Primetime late-night block. Rather than employing different actors for each episode, the program had a regular cast who played different characters in each story. The series was hosted by prolific producer-writer Stephen J. Cannell,
The intro for Season 2
The Players
Kim Coles
Lisa Houle
Maxine Miller
Francois Montagut
Sandra Nelson
Barbra Perkins
Olivier Pierre
George Touliatos
Teri Austin
Stephen McHattie
Robert Paisley
The next stop in the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge is the wonderful state of Idaho
Deep Cover
By Steve Roos
Jeff
Foster goes undercover to take down a drug dealer. Part of his cover
is to take flying lessons to get into contact with the company. He has
to deal with how his religion will fit into a life of deceit and lies.
Also a beautiful flying instructor.
Jeff
Foster is a detective on the relatively small police force in Idaho
Falls, Idaho. He's a devout member of his faith; he works hard, and he
loves his life. But Jeff is about to experience things that no one in
his mid-20s should have to experience, and his entire life is about to
change because of it. Jeff is involved in a night
surveillance with his partner. They bust a small-time drug dealer, and
police officials in Idaho Falls want more; they want information on the
bigger dealer. The dope is clearly coming up from Las Vegas, through
Salt Lake, and the guys in Idaho Falls want to know more about who in
Las Vegas is moving the drugs and where they're ultimately coming from.
The cops in Idaho and Vegas aren't the only ones who want that
information. So does the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency, and it's
ultimately up to Jeff Foster to go under cover to learn what he can.
N3 Infiltrates The Soviet's Top Sex-For-Secrets spy Ring!
Killmaster #245
Beautiful opera superstar Olga Siskov's best performances are given in the bedrooms of Western diplomats and heads of state. The secrets she gathers from her careless lovers are passed on to her Kremlin masters. Now, she's exposed the United States spy network in East Berlin. KGB assassins crack down with savage beatings, torture, and murder. America's intelligence network unravels and only Nick Carter remains at large. Nicks;s contacts are imprisoned or dead. KGB killers hunt him mercilessly and all escape routes are blocked. But nothing, not even the Berlin Wall can stop him. Nick's got a date with Olga, a date with death.
Printing History
Written by Jack Canon
Berkley Publishing Group
Jove Books
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” -Mark Twain
Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday for remembering the men and women who died while serving in the country's armed forces. The holiday is celebrated every year on the last Monday of May and was formerly known as Decoration Day. Decoration Day had originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the Union and Confederate
soldiers who died in the war. By the 20th century, Memorial Day had
been extended to honor all Americans who have died while in the military
service. Memorial Day typically marks the start of the summer vacation season.
The first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network.
Journalist Tom Kirkwood chronicles the nightly police beat of detectives Kevin O'Brien (Scott Hylands) and Frank Giambone (Jeff Wincott). His newspaper column, called Night Heat, follows the many exploits of the detectives of the Mid South Precinct. The series was filmed in Toronto, Canada.
Created by
Sonny Grosso & Larry Jacobson
Cast
Scott Hylands as Detective Kevin O'Brien
Jeff Wincott as Detective Frank Giambone
Allan Royal as columnist Thomas J. Kirkwood
Sean McCann as Lieutenant James Hogan
Eugene Clark as Detective Colby Burns
Stephen Mendel as Detective Freddie Carson
Susan Hogan as Nichole Rimbaud
Deborah Grover as Prosecutor Elaine Jeffers
Tony Rosato as Arthur "Whitey" Morelli (street informant)
Television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith and Edd Byrnes.
The series revolves around two Los Angeles private detectives, both former government secret agents: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. played Stuart (Stu) Bailey. This character Huggins had originated in his 1946 novel The Double Take. Roger Smith played Jeff Spencer, also a former government agent, and a non-practicing attorney. The duo worked out of a stylish office at 77 Sunset Boulevard, known as Sunset Strip
Nick Polo smells good money when he is
hired to sting a powerful executive cheating at the country club poker
game. Fourteen grand later, Polo is a happy man.
But then computer-chip mogul Ronald Dettman begins to fight back, and
Polo finds himself the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Set in the harsh Puritan
community of seventeenth-century Boston, a tale of an adulterous
entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals the concerns with the tension between the public and the private
selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her
inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true
heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale, trapped by the rules of
society, stands as a classic study of a self divided.
Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The Scarlet Letter was written in 1850 and is considered to be Hawthorne's greatest work
Printing History
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
1850
The Films
1926
Cast
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Lillian Gish - Hester Prynne Lars Hanson - The Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Henry B. Walthall - Roger Chillingworth Karl Dane - Master Giles William H. Tooker - The Governor Marcelle Corday - Mistress Hibbins Fred Herzog - The Jailer Jules Cowles - The Beadle Mary Hawes - Patience Joyce Coad - Pearl
1934
Cast
Directed by Robert G. Vignola
Colleen Moore as Hester Prynne Hardie Albright as Arthur Dimmesdale Henry B. Walthall as Roger Chillingworth Cora Sue Collins as Pearl Alan Hale, Sr. as Bartholomew Hockings Virginia Howell as Abigail Crakstone William Kent as Sampson Goodfellow William Farnum as Gov. Bellingham
Demi Moore as Hester Prynne Gary Oldman as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale Robert Duvall as Roger Chillingworth Edward Hardwicke as John Bellingham Robert Prosky as Horace Stonehall Roy Dotrice as Rev. Thomas Cheever Joan Plowright as Harriet Hibbons
A politician’s son gets involved in a murder, and drags Brady along with him
Tom Baron is running for governor on the Republican ticket and needs his
image to be squeaky clean. He employs men like Brady Coyne, a
compassionate Boston attorney, to keep problems far away from his
campaign. But when his son doesn’t come home one night, Tom’s political
strategy becomes a criminal matter. His son’s girlfriend
has been murdered, and the boy has no alibi. To protect his friend’s
political ambitions, Brady digs into the investigation, finding a trail
of drugs and corruption that stretches far across the Eastern seaboard. Tom
Baron may be his friend, but Brady Coyne will stomach no cover-up. If
the son is guilty and Tom is involved, Brady will come down on the
would-be governor with a fury that will make Boston politics look like a
student council election.
Nick Carter Is On An Explosive Seek-And-Destroy Mission!
Killmaster #244
Nick Carter "Killmaster" is out for the espionage coup of the decade. In a widely perilous power play, the Soviets have moved all vital intelligence material into one building. Located in the city of Sukhumi, on the Black Sea, the installation is a treasure trove of top secret documents A dangerous blunder for the Soviets. A chance of a lifetime for AXE and Agent N3. His assignment is to snatch what's valuable and destroy the rest. Leaving nothing for the Soviets but memories, corpses, and ashes. The Black Sea turns red with blood as Nick launches a one man invasion of the most heavily guarded piece of real estate in Russia.....
Printing History
Written by Jack Garside (1924-)
Berkley Publishing Group
Jove Books
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Put TV comedy write Larry Baker on a plush private island with three beautiful women, two jealous husbands, one escaped lunatic.....
And what do you get?
Lots of laughs and five corpses.
Anyone for Monte Cristo?
It's
a game Hoyle never heard of. You play it stripped to your polka-dot
shorts. If your the boy type player, that is. The playground is an old
French-style chateau on an island off the West Coast, complete with
dungeon, trapdoor, and plenty of mantraps...like your playmate for
instance, a torrid blonde, 100% natural, 100% nude, and 100% up to no
good.......
Robert McGinnis Cover
In this frightening frolic through a tycoons island fun house, Larry
Bake, TV writer, finds plots, people, and perils that defy even his wild
imagination........
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur archaeologist, is determined
to recreate ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in Greece in the
hope of summoning the goddess Demeter. He gathers together a motley
collection of people to assist in the experiment, including a rival
scholar, a handsome but cruel photographer and a trio of mischievous
children. But when one of the group disappears, and a severed head turns
up in a box of snakes, detective and psychoanalyst Mrs
Bradley is called upon to investigate.
Printing History
Written by Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (1901-1983)
a deadly tornado ripped through my hometown in Iowa.
This event was would be later known as the May 1968 tornado outbreak.
The May 1968 tornado outbreak was a significant and deadly tornado outbreak that struck most of the central and southern United States on May 15 to May 16, 1968. Producing 46 tornadoes, the outbreak killed at least 72 people including 45 in Arkansas alone. The outbreak also produced two F5s in Iowa. It was one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in the United States since the 1960s and is one of the deadliest outbreaks in Iowa history.
The Charles City Tornado of May 15, 1968
On the afternoon of May 15, 1968, an F5 tornado moved through Butler, Chickasaw, Floyd, Franklin, and Howard
Counties in northeast Iowa. The tornado moved northeast from north of Hansell, passing east of Aredale, west
of Greene, east of Marble Rock, and devastating Charles City. The tornado grew larger and more intense
as it approached Charles City, striking the city at approximately 4:50 pm. The huge tornado passed directly
through town, destroying 337 homes and 1250 vehicles, and causing about $30 million in damage. Ironically, the
tornado damaged 8 churches in town, but left the bars standing. Debris from Charles City was found as far away
as LeRoy, MN, nearly 35 miles to the north. The tornado continued to the northeast hitting Elma, where it caused
another $1.5 million in damage. From Elma the tornado turned to the north and dissipated south of Chester, 4 miles
south of the Minnesota border. The tornado was on the ground for 65 miles, reaching a width of 400 yards.
Nearly 2000 homes were damaged or destroyed. All 13 deaths occurred in Floyd County. 450 injuries were
reported in Floyd County and 12 injuries in Howard County.
Approximate path of the F5 tornado that struck Charles City, IA on May 15, 1968.
On the same day, another F5 tornado moved north-northeast from southwest of Oelwein to Maynard and east of
Randalia in Fayette County, IA. Homes were leveled and swept away in both Oelwein and Maynard. The warning
sirens sounded for only 15 seconds before power failed in Oelwein. Nearly 1000 homes were damaged or destroyed
along the path, and 34 people had to be hospitalized. Almost 1,000 families were affected. The damage from this
tornado totaled $21 million.
Photo by then Floyd County Sheriff L.L. Lane, along Highway 14 just before the
tornado hit Charles City, IA
In addition to these F5 tornadoes, an F2 tornado touched down 6 miles south of Cresco, IA, two weak F1 tornadoes
touched down in Dodge County, MN, and F1 tornadoes occurred in Fillmore County, MN and Chickasaw County, IA.
Baseball size hail (2.75") also fell in Fayette County, IA.
The Lewis And Clark Expedition (May 1804-September 1806)
Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark led an expedition that was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. It became known as The Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804 from St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.
William Clark (l) and Meriwether Lewis (c) with Sacagawea,
The Corps of Discovery departed from Camp Dubois at 4 p.m. on May 14, 1804, and met up with Lewis in St. Charles, Missouri, a short time later, marking the beginning of the voyage to the Pacific coast. The Corps followed the Missouri River westward. Soon they passed La Charrette, the last Euro-American settlement on the Missouri River.
References to Lewis and Clark scarcely appeared in history books even during the United States Centennial in 1876 and the expedition was largely forgotten. Lewis and Clark began to gain new attention around the start of the 20th century. Both the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in St. Louis, and the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition,
in Portland, Oregon, showcased Lewis and Clark as American pioneers.
However, the story remained relatively shallow a celebration of US
conquest and personal adventures, until the mid-century, since which time
it has been more thoroughly researched and retold in many forms to a
growing audience. In the 2000s the bicentennial of the expedition further elevated popular interest in Lewis and Clark. Today, no U.S. exploration party is more famous, and no American expedition leaders are more instantly recognizable by name.
The next stop in the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge is the beautiful state of Hawaii
The Betrayers
by Donald Hamilton
Matt Helm #10
In sunny Hawaii, a U.S. troopship is scheduled to blow sky high. It's time to call Matt Helm
Far
out in the Pacific, among the sunny islands of Hawaii, a dark venomous
plot was being engineered by one of the United States' own agents, an
angel-faces man called the Monk, who had a special fondness for high
explosive.
His target: An American troopship with three thousand U.S. soldiers
scheduled to blow sky high. Unless Matt Helm could stop it. But first
Matt had to trust the beautiful stranger who claimed to be his
sister-in-law and insisted that his former "wife" had just willed him a
million dollars..
Printing History
Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)
My Life Was Perfectly Simple. Then He Walked Through The Door... I'm
private investigator Laura Holt. My agency was hired to protect a
valuable shipment of precious gems but with one catch: the client wanted
to meet my boss. Only problem was that he didn't exist. I made him up
because no one would ever take a female investigator seriously. But one
day this total stranger with ocean blue eyes, a dazzling smile and at
least five identities tried to steal those jewels. The next thing I knew
he had assumed a sixth identity, moved into my office, moved into my
life, and despite my best efforts, he moved into my heart. We've been
together for five years; I married him (well, sort of) and I still don't
know his real name! I suppose it really doesn't matter anymore because
from the moment he walked through the door, the entire world came to
know him as REMINGTON STEELE
In 1942, Leo Marks left
his father's famous bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to
fight the war. He was twenty-two and soon to be recognized as a cryptographer of
genius He became head of communications at the Special Operations
Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of
the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into
occupied Europe.
The title is derived from an incident related in the book Marks
was asked why agents in occupied Europe should have their cryptographic
material printed on silk (which was in very short supply). He summed his
reply up by saying that it was "between silk and cyanide", meaning that
it was a choice between the agent's surviving by making reliable coded
radio transmissions with the help of the printed silk, and having to
take a suicide pill. Unlike paper, which would be given away by rustling, silk would not be
detected by a casual search if it was concealed in the lining of
clothing. Many of the incidents described in the book are humorous, a major theme
is Marks' inability to convince his superiors that apparent mistakes
made in radio transmissions from agents infiltrated into Nazi-occupied Holland were prearranged duress codes. S.O.E.
management, unwilling to face the possibility that their Dutch network
was compromised, insisted that the errors were attributable to poor
operation by the recently trained Morse code operators and continued to
parachute in new agents to sites prearranged with the compromised
network This lead to their immediate capture and later execution by the
Nazis. Marks' interest in cryptography dated from reading Poe's The Gold-Bug as a child. As a boy, Leo had begun his code-breaking with that of the used book store his father was a partner of, in noting the prices in his second-hand books.
Witness a journey to share an untold story of courage about a Muslim
woman hero who stood up against the Nazis and risked her life.
Noor Inayat Khan was the daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Ora Ray
Baker. She was born in Moscow on Jan 1, 1914. She was a direct descendant of Tipu Sultan, the 18th century Muslim ruler of Mysore. Her father was a musician
and Sufi teacher, playing a major role in her spirituality and religious
upbringing. She grew up in Paris and following the fall of France in
1940, she escaped to England and joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.
In 1942, she joined the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.), an organization
whose main goal was to sabotage and bring down the Axis powers. Khan
worked as a telegraph operator and helped transmit information back to
Britain from France under the alias ‘Madeleine.’ Following a betrayal from her French comrades, she was arrested by
the Nazi secret police. She made several attempts at escaping from
prison but she was recaptured and, finally, sent to the Dachau
Concentration Camp in Germany. She never cooperated with her captors nor
revealed any names or secrets leading up to her execution in September
of 1944, just before the end of World War II. She and three other female SOE agent were shot on 13 September. For her courage, Noor Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross in 1949.
In June 2013, Robert H. Gardner began directing a 60-minute biographical docu-drama to air on PBS in 2014. Unity Productions Foundation is scheduled to release this production.
A story of the men and women who waged Churchill's secret war
Once rumored to have been
the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Miss Moneypenny, Vera Atkins climbed
her way to the top in the Special Operations Executive, or SOE:
Britain’s secret service created to help build up, organize, and arm the
resistance in the Nazi-occupied countries. Throughout the war, Atkins
recruited, trained, and mentored the agents for the SOE’s French
Section, which sent more than four hundred young men and women into
occupied France, at least one hundred of whom never returned and were
reported “Missing Presumed Dead” after the war. Twelve of these were
women and among Atkins’s most cherished spies. When the war ended in
1945, she made it her personal mission to find out what happened to them
and the other agents lost behind enemy lines, tracing rigorously their
horrific final journeys. But as the woman who carried out this
astonishing search appeared very English, Atkins was nothing
of the sort. As the reader follows her through the devastation of postwar
Germany, we learn Atkins herself covered her life in mystery so that
even her closest family knew almost nothing of her past.
This one you can't collect baby unless it's over my dead body.....
After the episode of the Brothers of the Golden Lily, Andy Kane swore off buccaneering like it was Chinese gin. But when a redheaded Spaniard called Carmen Diez whirled into his life.....Hell! A guy can change his mind, can't he? Especially when she was the second Carmen Diez he'd met inside of 24 hours. That spelled trouble, trouble with a a capital D for dynamite. Andy had to blast his way out of the Chinese millionaire's palace to get the Golden Eagle, and the $20,000. The payoff came when Carmen Diez (Don't ask Andy which one!) told him the eagle was phony! That left Andy in the hotseat, so he organized an escape junk for Macao. But wait...how come he is heading for Red China?
