Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter Q

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along. We are currently in week 17 with the letter Q. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post must be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction. This time around I will be featuring a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet.

Carter Brown: Q is for

Wait there is no Carter Brown title starting with the Letter Q

So the next best thing, similar author and a real title starting with the Letter Q.

Nick Carter: Q is for The Q-Man

A technical genius plots to devastate the U.S continent!

George Gross Cover

   Earthquake!

When Nick Carter flew over San Diego all he could see was a dense cloud of brick dust. The city was virtually gone. Next stop was Los Angeles, as the quake worked its way up the fault line. And the devastation was man-made! The only suspects both deny that the quakes could be technologically induced. But AXE records prove that either one had the skill and the equipment to be the Q-Man. Nick has to find out who it is before the continent is utterly destroyed!

Printing History

Written by John Stevenson

Grosset & Dunlap Company
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

Charter Books

ISBN 441 69656 

March 1981

 
Note
This title was originally published in November 2011
The Q Man by John Stevenson

The Golden Bull by John Stevenson

It was cheap souvenir. 

But its secret was worth millions of dollars. 

And as many lives!

George Gross Cover

A Killing in Gold!

South of the border someone  is trying to torpedo the U.S. economy by shipping enormous quantities of gold onto the black market. Whoever is behind it must be both determined and fabulously wealthy, unless an undisclosed vein has been opened, or a new source of gold discovered. Who is investing this fortune in undermining U.S. stability? And is there more to it than mere economics? Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" is on his way to find out. But first he has to clean up after one assassinated AXE agent. Investigate the stunning socialite Tina Rodriguez, and find the missing David Hawk!

Printing History

Written by John Stevenson

Charter Books

441 29782

June 1981

The Q-Man by John Stevenson

A technical genius plots to devastate the U.S continent!

George Gross Cover

Earthquake!

When Nick Carter flew over San Diego all he could see was a dense cloud of brick dust. The city was virtually gone. Next stop was Los Angeles, as the quake worked its way up the fault line. And the devastation was man-made! The only suspects both deny that the quakes could be technologically induced. But AXE records prove that either one had the skill and the equipment to be the Q-Man. Nick has to find out who it is before the continent is utterly destroyed!

Printing History

Written by John Stevenson

Charter Books

441-69656 

March 1981

Day Of The Dingo by John Stevenson

Nick is sent to the Far East with an urgent deadline and one clue: "D-Day!"

George Gross Cover

Countdown To Holocaust!

Benny Chang, ace reporter out of Singapore, turned up dead. So Nick Carter decided to try his hand at journalism. Because Benny was working for AXE. And he was onto something very big.

As the new stringer, Nick gets advice from:

Yashida Arimoto, a beautiful Japanese, who seems to be just around the corner every time a corpse appears...and

Anna Yen, an Australian lovely, who knows a little too much about special codes and firearms for your average correspondent.

They are all tracking the same story. Why was Benny killed? What is "Day of the Dingo" and when? And what are Colonel Fung and his Red guerrillas up to in Malaya? If Nick does not get his facts checked, tomorrow's edition will scream "Final!" for the free world!

Printing History

Written by John Stevenson

Charter Books

441 13935

April 1980