The Vulture Is A Patient Bird by James Hadley Chase

Safari To Slaughter 

Cover by Beverly LeBarrow

  A brilliant but sadistic safe breaker

A beautiful professional seductress

An expert young white hunter

And an ace pilot with a shady past

This was the team undercover operator Armo Shalik assembled to steal the priceless Borgia ring from millionaire Max Kahlenberg's closely guarded fortress in the remote and deadly African bush. But Kahlenberg found out they were coming, and the gang's expedition turned into a strictly one way safari....to slaughter. 

Printing History

René Lodge Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985)

Robert Hale 1969

Granada Publishing

ISBN 586 03540 

copyright 1970

The Shankill Road Contract by Philip Atlee

Joe Gall Challenges A Bizarre Killer in Ireland

Gall’s assignment is to stop an assassin who was suspected of 50+ brutal eliminations in the political strife of Northern Ireland and was rumored to be upping the ante by killing a major official in the British government.  The assassin is an American. Worse, he is the son of a member of the U.S. Cabinet.

Printing History

Written by James Atlee Phillips (1915-1991)

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

  T2819

1973

Drum Beat:Madrid by Stephen Marlowe

In the city notorious for mystery and intrigue, 

Chester Drum tangles with a pair of flaming 

senoritas who have murder in their hearts.

Chester Drum accompanies a sometimes friend to Spain where the man was planning to get married. The fact that the man was Axel Spade, wanted in many countries including Spain just made it more interesting. And the fact that they learn about twenty million dollars in missing Spanish gold.

Printing History 

Written by Milton Lesser (1928-2008)

Fawcet Gold Medal

1966