Unfinished Crime by Helen McCloy

Unfinished Crime

by Helen McCloy

Web Of Terror

When Sara Dacre comes across a large red pendant at a twenty cent jewellery stall she is tempted to buy it, especially when she bumps into her friend Gerry Hone, who persuades her that it will brighten up her old grey taffeta. But soon she finds herself at the center of some strange events. On leaving the shop she and Gerry witness the scene of an accident, but nobody can agree what happened. And when Gerry takes her out for coffee he goes to the counter to order, and never comes back . . . 

Printing History

Written by Helen Worrell Clarkson McCloy (1904-1994)

A Graphic Mystery

#113

1954

Carter Brown Double Feature

Two Classic Al Wheeler Thrillers

Delilah Was Deadly/No Harp For My Angel

Cover by Xou Creative

Delilah Was Deadly

"Someone's throwing corpse around so fast I'd call a cop, only I'd look sort of silly if I did!"

Unorthodox L.A. cop Lieutenant Al Wheeler has just been promoted to the head of Homicide following his success cracking his last case. This time around, a social editor of a fashion magazine is discovered dead inside a safe, strangled with a pink nylon girdle, wearing his silk pajamas. It looks like this might be the work of Satanists but before long the bodies start to pile up when one of Al's colleagues gets killed.......

No Harp For My Angel

"She was sitting on a stool at the bar with an old-fashioned in front of her. It was the only old-fashioned thing about her!"

Al Wheeler is vacationing in Florida when he hits on a redhead named Julie Adams, and thus meets crime boss Johnny Lynch. Lynch has Al beat up and framed for a car theft, but fortunately the local chief of police is an old friend of Al's. He tells Al that a lot of pretty young girls have gone missing in the area, and that he thinks Lynch is involved. Wheeler is talked into going undercover to get tot eh bottom of it....

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Brio Books Pty Ltd

Carter Brown Foundation Pty

May 2018

ISBN 978 1-922057-35-8

Delilah Was Deadly 

1956 by Horwitz Publications

No Harp For My Angel

1956 by Horwitz Publications

The Way We Love by Stuart Friedman

An Unconventional Novel Of Manners And Morals In A Modern Hospital

Cover by Harry Barton

This is a realistic story of human passion and weakness behind the ultramodern facade of a big city hospital the saga of Kurt Severton. A brilliant surgeon who feels duty-bound to prevent a whitewash of a bungled operation by his chief, Dr. Tolliver. 

There's Donna, Tolliver's wife hot, vibrant, and eager to love who thrusts herself wantonly into Severton's life. 

And Marti, his mistress, who gives him everything a woman can give: love, loyalty, passion. 

But above all, there is Severton's guilty conscience. Has he the right to expose a colleagues professional mistake when his own personal life is not above reproach?

Printing History

Written by Stuart Freidman

copyright 1960

Monarch Books

#445

May 1964

Guilty As Hell by Brett Halliday

Femmes Fatales

 

Robert McGinnis Cover

Teeny-Bopper Trouble
Deedee was jailbait, but her looks, curves and experience made her a very effective man-trap; and someone had decided to spring her on Mike Shayne.

Shayne had no time for minor problems like Deedee until he discovered she had some major connections with espionage, blackmail and murder. And by that time he had already been hooked...

 

Printing History 

Written by Robert Terrall

Dell Publishing Company

#3291

 November 1967

1975

December 1977

The City Of Hoke by Shelly Lowenkopf

Cozy Up With Kozy Books

Printing History

Written by  Shelly Lowenkopf

Kozy Books

K139

1961

Another Carter Brown Triple Play

Stark House Mystery Classics

 Introduction By Rick Ollerman

 Carter Brown was the literary pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates (August 1923-May 1985) He was an English-born Australian writer of detective fiction. Mr Yates wrote more than 300 mysteries during his lifetime. His books, originally published by Horwitz and Signet, were set in the United States and published throughout the world. In its obituary for Yates in 1985, The New York Times noted that he had written "some 30 detective novels with American backgrounds before ever having visited the United States. He said he chose American settings because Australians preferred them."

A rumor spread at the height of his popularity that Yates was one of John F. Kennedy's favorite authors, a rumor which helped propel his sales even further in the North American market. Carter Brown's huge international success saw reportedly 120 million books in print, second only to The Bible in terms of the number of languages into which they were translated. The success of the books also spawned a comic book series, the 'Carter Brown Murder Mystery Hour' on radio, three French films, a Japanese TV series, and a French literary award for 'The most whiskies drunk in a single novel'.

Printing History

Written by Alan Geoffrey Yates (1923-1985)

Stark House Press

ISBN 781944 520441

May 2018

No Harp For My Angel

1956 by Horwitz Publications

Booty For A Babe

1956 by Horwitz Publications

 

Eve, It's Extortion

as Walk Softly, Witch

as The Victim (USA)

1957 by Horwitz Publications

1959 by Horwitz Publications

1959 by Signet Books

Bonus Covers

No Harp For My Angel

Booty For a Babe

 Eve, It's Extortion

Walk Softly, Witch

The Victim