More Carter Brown Classics

More Carter Brown Classics

Al Wheeler Mysteries #10-12

The Unorthodox Corpse

Death On The Downbeat

The Blonde

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Originally published in separate volumes by Horwitz Publications, Inc

The Unorthodox Corpse 

Numbered Series #54 December 1957

revised for Signet Books #1950 July 1961

Death On The Downbeat

Numbered Series #57 February 1958

as The Corpse (USA) Signet Books #1606 December 1958

The Blonde

Numbered Series #67 August 1958 

as for Signet Books #1565 November 1958

Cover art by Robert McGinnis

Dutch Edition of The Hang-Up Kid

Chicago Confidential by Max Allan Collins

Nathan Heller #14

It's 1950 in Chicago, P.I. Nate Heller's old stomping grounds. But things are different now, and the wind is blowing in a different, decidedly more dangerous direction. Congressman-with-a-cause and presidential-hopeful Estes Kefauver creates the Committee on Organized Crime to put the squeeze on the mob. And anyone who ever associated with them. Heller tries to lay low, but when ex-cop Bill Drury cooperates and mafia moll Jackie Payne sings, Heller finds himself catapulted into the middle of the investigation.

Printing History

Written by Max Allan Collins (1948- )

Signet Books 

ISBN 451-20856

September 2003

California Roll by Roger L Simon

"I never sold out before because nobody ever asked me. In all it took around twenty minutes"

Cover by Lisa Falkenstern

Los Angeles private detective Moses Wine has turned forty and is worried about his future. When Silicon Valley beckons, Moses jumps. He takes a position as head of security for the Tulip Computer Corporation and things start looking up: he gets a new car, a new house, and a new girlfriend. One thing stays the same, however--murder seems to follow him around. When one of Tulip's young geniuses is shot to death, Moses begins his investigation amid his new world of corporate infighting and bureaucratic bungling and soon finds himself involved in international computer theft, double-crossing beautiful women, the Japanese mafia, and the GRU. The trail takes him from Northern California to Los Angeles to the beautiful Japanese countryside to the mean streets of Tokyo.

Printing History

Written by Roger L Simon (1943- )

Warner Books 

ISBN 446-32965

June 1986

Harvest Of Death by Ramsay Thorne

Captain Gringo cuts a hot path of love and fury through a jungle in hell!

Renegade #14

CAPTAIN GRINGO marches through Mexico!

His destination: A hotly disputed cocoa country where men indulge their greed, their lust, and their taste for blood. Captain Gringo's got to slash his way through torrid, twisted jungle crowded with Mexican marauders, greedy guerrillas, and ladies with love on their minds. The Captain's always ready to bed young maids or blast away with his Maxim, as magnificent Mayan ruins loom overhead. But when he comes up against a fanatical would-be dictator, it'll take all his American might and mind to explode a brewing international incident in a scorching climax!

Printing History

Written by Lou Cameron (1924-2010)

Warner Books, Inc

ISBN 446-30124

September 1982

Escape To Athena (1979)

Escape To Athena

A ragtag group of prisoners: Italian chef Bruno (Sonny Bono), British archeology professor Blake (David Niven), American soldier Nat (Richard Roundtree) and Greek prostitute Eleana (Claudia Cardinale): befriend each other in a Greek POW camp run by Otto Hecht (Roger Moore), an art-loving Nazi officer. With the help of local resistance fighters, the inmates plot to escape and steal valuable artifacts from a heavily guarded monastery that's used as a storehouse.

Directed by

George P. Cosmatos (1941-2005)

Cast

Roger Moore as Major Otto Hecht: an Austrian who is the Wehrmacht commandant of the POW camp, a former antiques dealer

Telly Savalas as Zeno: the head of the Greek island's resistance movement

David Niven as Professor Blake: senior British officer amongst the prisoners and a well-known archaeologist

Stefanie Powers as Dottie Del Mar: an American USO artist (in fact, stripper), who was shot down with Charlie and detained in the POW camp

Elliott Gould as Charlie Dane: an American comedian, USO performer and professional partner of Dottie

Claudia Cardinale as Eleana: a local madame, girlfriend of Zeno

Richard Roundtree as Sgt. Nat Judson: African-American POW and amateur magician

Sonny Bono as Bruno Rotelli: an Italian POW, professional chef