Monday, March 23, 2015

No Law Against Angels by Carter Brown

Meet the dames who'll go arm in arm with a snake.
All the way to murder.
And their corpses die in bed.


 The morgue before breakfast is not Al Wheeler's idea of living it up, but that is what comes from being an unorthodox cop! This was strictly business, too many beautiful dolls tattooed with snake sings had been found with their throats slit.

No Law Against Angels was revised as The Body with the introduction of Carter Brown in the United States in July 1958.

There was only one way a call girl could quit the business, as a corpse. 
And the corpses are piling up.

Barye Phillips Cover
 Killers are his business.
Dames as his pleasure.
In this case he tangles with both.


When hard drinking, quick thinking, California cop Al Wheeler goes gunning for the murderer of two call girls, he tangles with a luscious blonde, a big time racketeer, and a well stacked redhead who works in a fashionable mortuary. 

Grant Roberts Cover
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)
 
Horwitz Publications 
Numbered Series #43 (1957)

as The Body 
Horwitz Publications, Inc
Long Story Magazine #18 January 1961
International Edition #1 January 1961
International Edition #59 June 1969

New American Library
Signet Books (USA)
1st (1527) July 1958
2nd (G2488) May 1964
3rd (T4550) March 1971
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