Death Squad by Jack Canon

Agent N3 plunges into the blood storm of a South American revolution

George Gross Cover

 Killmaster #223

Latin American dictator Carlos Baldez is dying. And now the vultures are gathering around his death bed, greedy generals ad fierce rebels poised to start a bloody civil war. Already the president's son has been kidnapped in a brazen bid for power. Nick Carter is sent to investigate. But in a smoldering nation about to explode, the facts aren't easy to find. And time is running out, for the Killmaster and for a country on the brink of violent revolution....

Printing History

Written by Jack Canon

Berkley Publishing Group

Charter Books

Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

ISBN 441 57292

March 1987

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes

The Baskerville family is cursed.

Is a demonic force responsible?

 In the 1600's Sir Hugo Baskerville murdered a peasant girl who refused his advances. Shortly thereafter, Sir Hugo was found dead on the moor, viciously murdered by a terrifying hound from hell. Since that fateful night, every Baskerville heir has suffered the same grisly fate, with the most recent victim being Sir Charles Baskerville. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are engaged to see that the same thing does not happen to latest Baskerville, Sir Henry. Thrown into a case full of local superstition, Holmes steers his way through a maze of ancient lore and innocent blood. Can Holmes protect Sir Henry and in the process break the howling curse that is The Hound of the Baskervilles?

copyright 1988

Granada Television Limited

Written by 

Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle

Cast

Jeremy Brett (1933-1995) as Sherlock Holmes

Edward Hardwicke (1932-2011) as Dr Watson
Raymond Adamson (1920-2002) as Sir Charles Baskerville
Alastair Duncan (1958- ) as Dr. Mortimer
Fiona Gillies as Beryl Stapleton

Directed by Brian Mills (1933-2006)

Jake Strait Bogeyman #3 by Frank Rich

Inner-city hell just found a new savior

Jake Strait

Day of Judgment 
 

Free Tickets To Paradise

The damned, dirty and depraved call the confines of inner-city hell home.It's  thriving nucleus of spiritual activity. Neon temples with video preachers, street corner messiahs and coin fed confession machines, ghetto prophets, whiskey evangelists and vendors selling salvation in a box. Jake Strait has always placed his faith in the devil. But when a gorgeous blond angel hires him to infiltrate a religious sect and locate her twin sister, he decides to a give a new and improved God a try.  Hired to turn the sect's team of bumbling soldiers into a hit squad, he plans to lead the attack against the city's criminal subculture. But when the robes of spiritual righteousness fall away to reveal a wild-eyed prophet on the make, Jake's got to pawn his ticket to paradise and gets his conscience out of hock.

Printing History

written by Frank Rich (1946 - )

World Wide Library 

Gold Eagle Books

January 1994

ISBN 373-63609

Mexican Standoff by Glen Chase

The mob was growing opium in Mexico.

Cherry's job was to smoke them out.

Torch Job

The supply of heroin from Turkey has been cut down, but south of the Mexican border the Mafia was growing opium in the mountains. The Mob's local and imported gunmen kept the villagers in line, and anybody who talked to the federales died a horrible death. Cherry's assignment was to literally smoke them out. And that's what she did, burning up millions of dollars in H. But before she torched the poppy fields she had one hell of a time, because Cherry enjoys her work. In or out of bed.

Printing History

written by Gardner F Fox (1911-1986)

Cherry Delight #21
Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
LB260ZK (April 1975)

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter N

We are chugging, like a really fast moving train, along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are half way through with the Letter N. Kerry's Blog is kind enough to sponsor this community meme each and every week. The rules are very simple:  The posts 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: N is for None But the Lethal Heart

Grant Roberts Cover

    Mavis Seidlitz gets stuck with a corpse that's too hot to handle

Grant Roberts Cover

 Mavis is keeping company with a corpse and she's got to get rid of him fast. She tries to bury him, lose him, and even gives him away. But he persists in haunting her. The cops are on her heels and a gang of hoods is breathing down her neck. And someone seems determined to wrap her up in a slinky shroud. But here is the sizzling scorcher: A red-hot tale of murder and mayhem, chills and spills, and the daffiest detective work this side of a dizzy blonde bombshell, named Mavis Seidlitz.

Barye Phillips Cover

  Various Other Publisher Covers

United Kingdom

New English Library

Four Square Books

March 1967

Cover photograph by Cambell MacCallum

 Australia

 Horwitz Publications Inc

 June 1959

Grant Roberts Cover

Australia

 Horwitz Publications Inc

As The Fabulous

September 1961

  United States

New American Library

Signet Books

 1966

Robert McGinnis Cover

 Russia

1992

   Japan

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

1962

Japan

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

1977

Netherlands

  Middernacht  

1962

Finland

Valpas-Mainos  

1967

Germany

Ullstein Bucher

1967

 Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)
 

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #78 June 1959

Long Story Magazine #6 January 1960

International Edition #9 September 1961

(retitled as The Fabulous)

International Edition #64 April 1970

(back to original title)

New American Library

Signet Books

1st Printing (1694) August 1959

2nd Printing (1694) September 1959 

(Canada)

3rd Printing (D2849) 1966

Notes

This title originally posted in three parts in a slightly different format

From October 2010

 None But The Lethal Heart

From March 2011

None But The Lethal Heart 

 

From February 2012

None But The Lethal Heart (Dutch)

The Circle War by Mack Maloney

He is the last hope of Ravaged America!

Fortress America
Decimated in a deadly rain of treachery and deceit, its great cities and vast countryside reduced to a war-blackened landscape, the United States is united no longer. But out of the blasted ruins emerges the brilliant ace fighter pilot Hawk Hunter, a lone warrior battling to keep the spirit of America in the hearts of his countryman. From his secret base in the coastal wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, Hunter hears rumors of strange lights and sonic booms in the northern skies, of a vast armada sailing toward the West Coast that suddenly vanishes, of  any army equipped with Russian SAMs and armor hidden deep in the Dakota Badlands. The reports can mean only one thing, a second fiery showdown with Russian overlords and their armies of destruction. With the fate of a shattered nation hanging in the balance, it's up to Hawk Hunter to rally the armies of freedom and strike one last bold and bloody blow for a cause know as America!

Wingman #2

Printing History

written by Brian Kelleher

copyright 1987

Kensington Publishing Corp

Zebra Books

ISBN 8217 2120

4th Printing May 1991

Happy July 4th

Happy July 4th

A post somewhat related to Independence Day

The Snake Flag Conspiracy

by Saul Wernick

Don't tread on me.

Do.... and you die.

  All Strangers.

All Unlikely Killers.

All Sharing One Common Goal.

Destroy Nick Carter!

 

Economic Disaster

 The KGB had an agent in Boston with a foolproof plan to wreck the American economy in its Bicentennial year. By forcing the biggest banks to dump all their stocks at the same time. A plant in one of Boston's old families. And the manipulation of their cast financial power, would trigger total economic collapse!

George Gross Cover

 Nick Carter Killmaster N3 had to discover the identity of the phoney "Boston Brahmin" and make his sudden death look like an accident, before the collapse began. But there was a welcoming committee of thousands of killers waiting for him.

Printing History

Written by Saul Wernick (1921-1982)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Universal-Award House Inc

Award Books
First Printing AQ 1576 (1976)

 United Kingdom Edition
Universal Books
426 18542 (1978)

Grosset & Dunlap Company
Charter Communications
Charter Books
ISBN 441 77193
December 1981

 Note
This title was originally published on July 22, 2011 in a slightly different format

The Snake Flag Conspiracy

Blood Of The Falcon by Dennis Lynds

Agent N3 vs. the Middle East's top merchant of terror

George Gross Cover

 Killmaster #222

They call him Reguiba,  Moroccan death merchant extraordinaire. With an army of desert jackals who live to kill and kill to live, he's got the manpower, the hardware and the petrodollars to pull any job, no matter how bloody. 

Hit target: The American allies in the Middle East. 

His goal: The total breakdown of Western alliances. 

His biggest obstacle: Agent N3 Nick Carter

Printing History

Written by Dennis Lynds (1924-2005)

Berkley Publishing Group

Charter Books

Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

ISBN 441 57291

February 1987

The Bavarian Connection by Don Smith

An all expenses paid European trip turns into an explosive battle over hidden Nazi war booty

A Tangled Web

A Swiss Bank started the ball rolling when a young man from Brazil turned up to claim his father's Nazi gold and then was bludgeoned to death....

A Liechtenstein Art Dealer was another link in the sordid trail involving stolen art work hidden since Word War II....

A Dutch Diamond Merchant sold a fabulous stone that had been stolen before the war, and ended up very dead in a canal....

A Bavarian Developer catered to more than just wealthy jet setters. His enclave seemed to be the headquarters for the rise of the Fourth Reich....

Phil Sherman needed all his CIA cunning and connections to tie all these slender threads together, before the holocaust began again.......

Secret Mission #20

Printing History

Written by Don Smith

Grosset & Dunlap Company

Charter Communications
Charter Books
ISBN 441 04884
1978

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter M

We are chugging, like a fast moving train, along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are about half way through with the Letter M. Kerry's Blog is kind enough to sponsor this community meme each and every week. The rules are very simple:  The posts 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: M is for Murder Wears A Mantilla

Mavis Seidlitz is the dizziest blonde who ever ended up in the Tunnel of Love after buying tickets for the Big Dipper. When she is not trying to fix her clothing, either a brazier, stockings, or chemise, she is a partner in Rio Investigations. As the story goes, Mavis is South of the border on vacation. She meets one bull fighter who she thinks is the dreamiest. The next bullfighter has a knife stuck in his back. So she starts investigating up until things get out of hand.  The Black Death, 40 million pesos, The Golden Inca, people with guns. so she sends a cable to her boss, Johnny Rio. HELP.

Robert McGinnis Cover

 Blonde bombshell Mavis hurries to a torrid rendezvous with a timid torero only to find that a killer got there first. Fleeing the murder scene, she runs smack into the waiting arms of Mexico's feared and fearless police chief, the Black Death.He slips away with her to the local police station, where he forces her to surrender her baggage claim check. When the police open Mavis' luggage, up pops....another corpse. OLE!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.
Sydney Australia

Numbered Series #50 1957
Reprinted By Demand Series #13 1959

International Edition Series #34 1963

New American Library

Signet Books
 S2048 February 1962
T5275 1973

Other Publisher Covers 

Valpas-Mainos 

Finland

1967

Middernacht-Serie

Netherlands  

1963

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

Tokyo Japan

1963

Gallimard  

Paris

1961,1974

New American Library

USA

1973

Note

This title was originally post on December 30, 2010 in a slightly different form.

Murder Wears A Mantilla