None But The Lethal Heart

Carter Brown was published through out the world in the1960's and 1970's. In the UK, he was published by the New English Library Limited imprint Four Square Crime. This edition was printed in March 1967. This book features character Mavis Seidlitz. She gets stuck with one very cold corpse that is getting way too hot to handle. Mavis tried to bury the corpse, loses him, even gives the corpse away. But it comes back to haunt her.

Cover photograph by Cambell MacCallum

Last copy of Safari For Spies

Later Tandem Edition from June 1975 of Safari For Spies.

Safari For Spies

The fourth installment of the Killmaster Series is the title Safari For Spies. This title was written by Valerie Moolman and published in August 1964. The plot is a newly independent west African country of the Republic of Nyanga is on the verge of civil war. The country is closely allied with Russia. The Russian embassy in Nyanga has been bombed and its foreign nationals are being harassed on the streets. The Russians blame the United States for orchestrating the bombing and harassment despite the fact that the US embassy itself has been bombed.

Below we have various covers from both the Award and Tandem Series.

First and Fourth Award Printings

 

Fifth Printing and Ace Charter reprint from 1981

Digit and Tandem 1st Edition

Only The Very Rich

Here we have the Carter Brown Mystery from 1969, Only The Very Rich, published by Horwitz Publications. A Danny Boyd mystery. Our hero is sent to an English country manor to solve a murder. He is hired by the $40 million widow to find out who did it and he must also find out who stole the family jewels. Below we have the covers of both the Horwitz and Signet editions

              Horwitz Edition                                                  Signet Edition

Another China Doll

Tonight I was looking through my book collection and spotted another copy of The China Doll. This one is the first printing in the UK by Tandem Books in 1968. Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp owned both Award and Tandem books.

Checkmate in Rio

The third book in the Nick Carter Killmaster Series is Checkmate In Rio. Checkmate was written by Valerie Moolman and published by Award Books in May 1964. Nick is paired with a female spy, Rosalind Addler, to find out what happened to six CIA agents in Rio de Janeiro. Gun running and beautiful Carla Langley are on the plate by our spy. His cover is a millionaire playboy Robert Millbank.

Some cover throughout the series.

 More covers from the Award Books

 German Edition (1969) and UK Edition (1973 reprint)

August 1979 US Edition

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High Fashion in Homicide

Here we have a copy of  High Fashion in Homicide. This was published in 1958 by Horwitz Piblications. Our hero, Johnny French, is on a luxury yacht, when a brunette finds a body in her cabin. He then loses the corpse after a knock on the head. The corpse is none other than international playboy Jimmy Jamieson. Too many J's. Johnny sticks through the caper and eventually bags the bad guys.

Cutie Cashed His Chips

Another early Carter Brown Edition. Cutie Cashed His Chips was published by Horwitz in 1955. This title was revised and published in the United States in February 1961 under the title The Million Dollar Babe.

Horwitz Edition 

New American Library Edition

The China Doll

The China Doll: Written By Micheal Avallone and Valerie Moolman. Published in April 1964.

1st and 2nd printing (July 1965)

4th (1968) and 5th printing (1970)

Award used the same design for all five printings as one can see from the above scans. The China Doll is one of several rare occurrence of the printings being correct on the book cover or fly-sleeve. The majority of the early Award Editions were either incorrect printing stated on the book cover or on the fly-sleeve.

Digit House Edition

I don't have a scan of a Tandem Edition.

Last Run Spy Run copy

Forgot one other copy. This is the December 1965 reprint published by Brown Watson LTD. Digit House