Is It Summer Yet?

Is It Summer Yet?

With the weather in the 70's all week here, I have been bike riding four times this week. I took this picture on Friday  morning in the middle of my 15 mile ride in south east Denver. The two mountains have quite a bit of snow s they had been dumped with lots of snow. Maybe e will skip spring and head on into summer. But Sunday's forecast is a high of 39 with rain and or snow.

Can Ladies Kill? by Peter Cheyney

The fourth title in the Lemmy Caution series 

In the morgue office there ain't anybody there at all. One goes through the office into the corpse room.Switch on the light and there one starts pulling out the trays with the stiffs on. The morgue was found alright. He was in number five trying to look sorta surprised. Which he was entitled to be .....somebody had shot this guy three times.

Printing History

Written by Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney (1896-1951)

William Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd. 

1938

Death And Taxes by David Dodge

Introducing, James “Whit” Whitney, as a tax accountant turned detective in 1940s San Francisco.

 

 San Francisco tax accountant James “Whit” Whitney is summoned home from a vacation in Santa Cruz to help his partner recover a hefty tax refund for a beautiful blonde client named Marian Wolff. When he returns to his office, Whit finds his partner, George MacLeod, dead in the firm’s vault, with a small hole in the bridge of his nose. In order to complete the tax return and uncover the murderer, Whit becomes a reluctant detective and nearly gets himself killed in the process.

Printing History

Written by David F Dodge (1910-1974)

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941
London: Michael Joseph, 1947
New York: Popular Library, 1948 (PL 168)
Eugene, Or.: Bruin Books, 2010 (Bruin Crimeworks)

Murder On High by Carter Brown

Beauty, The Beast, and Square Daddy

When San Fransisco lawyer Randall Roberts went looking for "Calvin" Sandra Stillwell, a hip, back to nature virgin beauty and no so incidentally heiress to a small fortune he didn't expect his search to take him through the orgiastic den of an apeman. But if the beast could steer him to his beauty, who was he to complain, especially when the apeman's harem was his for the loving So off to the commune, where Randall found himself bedazzled by "Calvin's" virginal beauty and the psychedelic smoke clouds her commune buddies blew his way. But behind the clouds the corpses began piling up, and the commune brothers crash landed from the worst trips kids could take, a needle in the arm and a deadly dose of big H to the heart. And suddenly find the heiress became find the heroin before big H found Square Daddy Roberts for keeps...!

Bonus Covers

Vietnam (2003)

 Norway (1974)

Germany (1974)

Printing History

 Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Numbered Series #170 1973

ISBN 7255 0225

New American Library

Signet Books

T 5249 April 1973

Polo Solo by Jerry Kennealy

A Nick Polo Mystery

Nick Polo, a San Francisco-based, smart and slick private eye, sometimes bends the rules to get what he wants. But now he's in prison for bending the rules a bit too far, and he is given an ultimatum: The mayor of San Francisco is being blackmailed and no one can help her because even the cops may be involved. If Polo wants to get out of jail and get his P.I. license back, he's got to find out who's behind the scam, stop it, and tell no one. His investigation takes him from the luxurious resort areas of Sonoma County to the dangerous drug-and-pornography underworld of San Francisco's inner city. His suspects range from the seediest petty criminals and hit men to the most powerful men in the municipal government. As the investigation intensifies, and the pieces fall into place, there becomes only one thing Polo is sure of: he'd gladly go back to jail, if he could only get there alive.

Printing History

Written by Jerry Kennealy (1938- )

St Martin's Press

Hardback

ISBN 312 00671

July 1987

Paperback

ISBN 312 91074

February 1988

Speaking Volumes

E Book

February 2013

The Streets Of San Fransisco (1972-1977)

The Streets Of San Fransisco

The show revolved around two police officers who investigated homicides in San Francisco. The center of the series was a veteran cop and widower, Lt Mike Stone, who had more than twenty years of police experience and was now assigned to the Homicide Detail of SFPD's Bureau of Inspectors. He was partnered with a young, plainclothes detective, Assistant Inspector Steve Keller, a college graduate who had no experience in the police force.

Cast

Karl Malden as Det. Lt. Mike Stone
Michael Douglas as Inspector Steve Keller (1972-1976)
Richard Hatch as Inspector Dan Robbins (1976-1977)

Pilot

September 16th 1972

Season One

September 23rd 1972 to April 12th 1973

Season Two

September 13th 1974 to March 14th 1974

Season Three

September 1974 to March 1975

Season Four

September 11th 1975 to March 18th 1976

Season Five

September 30th 1976 to June 9th 1977

Movie
 January 27th 1992

Cop Hater by Ed McBain

Any Cop Could Be The Next Victim

Every Cop Was Out To Kill The.......

The city has surrendered to a heat wave in when detective Mike Reardon is on the way to work on the nightshift, he is shot to death from behind with a .45 caliber handgun. As Steve Carella and his colleagues from the 87th Precinct are looking for their friend's killer, they have no idea that this is just the beginning of a series of police murders. David Foster is the next victim, at the entrance of his apartment, where the killer has left behind a footprint at the crime scene. A few nights later the unknown killer ambushes and murders Det. Hank Bush. Bush fought back however and shot and wounded the murderer.

The Film (1958)

 

Printing History

Written by Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005)

copyright 1956

Eye Of The Needle by Ken Follett

Eye Of The Needle

Written by Ken Follett

A German spy in England during World War II who discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion. In his attempt to return to Germany with the information, he travels to the isolated Storm Island off the coast of Scotland to meet up with a U-boat, but his plans are thwarted by a young woman and her paralyzed husband.

Printing History

Written by Ken Follett (1949- )

as Storm Island

1978

as Eye of the Needle 

1979

Film (1981)

Directed by Richard Marquand

Cast

Donald Sutherland as Henry Faber
Kate Nelligan as Lucy Rose
Stephen MacKenna as Lieutenant
Christopher Cazenove as David Rose
Philip Martin Brown as Billy Parkin
George Belbin as Lucy's Father
Faith Brook as Lucy's Mother

 

1000th Post

This is my 1000th post on this blog

A link from the very first post.

First Post

And a little history

On this day on April 4th 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis Tennessee. 

MLK 

Also on April 4th 1933

US Dirigible Akron crashes off the coast of NJ, 73 die.

USS Akron

Afghan Intercept by Jack Garside

Agent N3 Against An Army Of The World's Most Deadly Assassin!

Killmaster #242

Afghanistan. A land invaded by an army of Russian jackals. Millions have been slaughtered or have fled. But the fearless freedom fighters of the mujaheddin, the heart and soul of Afghanistan's resistance movement, will never surrender their homeland. Now the Soviets have formulated the ultimate plot to crush the mujaheddin. That is, if the KGB can cope with the rebellious fighting men of their own elite Special Forces But the Russian infighting is Nick Carter's chance to end the bloodbath, and tip the scales in favor of the free world. all he has to do is infiltrate the Soviet high command!

Printing History

Written by Jack Garside

Berkley Publishing Group

Jove Books

Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

ISBN 515 09757

October 1988