Terror Comes Creeping (1959) by Carter Brown

We step back a year to 1959 in the Crimes Of The Century over at  Past Offences  Rich has been hosting this monthly event  that features a different year in which us bloggers contributes a post about crime fiction book, film, TV, comics, or a short story. For my contribution will be...............................

Terror Comes Creeping 

by Carter Brown

Danny Boyd goes on a back-to-nature kick that is murder

 

The beautiful brunette's mother had made her a millionaire. Now her father wanted to make her a corpse.

The brunette was very beautiful and very scared. She looked private Danny Boyd in the eye and shuddered once. Then she calmly told him that her father was planning on killing her. She claimed he had murdered her brother and was trying to get rid of her sister. And that she was third on the list. She had no proof to back her story, only cold green cash. She might be crazy, but she was also crazy rich. She was Danny's favorite kind of client. So Danny decided to take the lovely lady's case. And tag her father a killer. 

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Horwitz Edition

Numbered Series #81 1959

Signet Edition
December 1959

The Eiger Sanction (1975)

Clint Eastwood is an art history professor, mountain climber, and former assassin who was once employed by a secret United States government agency. He is blackmailed into returning to his deadly profession and do one more "sanction". He later agrees to join an international climbing team in Switzerland planning an ascent of the Eiger north face in order to complete a second sanction to avenge the murder of an old friend.

Cast

• Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock
• George Kennedy as Ben Bowman
• Vonetta McGee as Jemima Brown
• Jack Cassidy as Miles Mellough
• Heidi Brühl as Anna Montaigne
• Thayer David as Dragon
• Gregory Walcott as Pope
• Reiner Schöne as Karl Freytag
• Michael Grimm as Anderl Meyer
• Jean-Pierre Bernard as Jean-Paul Montaigne

 Trivia

Based on the 1972 novel The Eiger Sanction, by Trevanian (Rodney William Whitaker 1931-2005)

October 1972