C Is For ..........................................

C Is For...............................................

Chessmaster

Printing History

Written by Robert Randisi (1951- )

Charter Books 

January 1982

ISBN 441-10351

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

The Vanisher by Kenneth Robeson

The Vanisher

Doc Savage #52

                                                                    

The Dream Of The Deadly Gnome

Twenty convicts vanished without a trace from maximum security cells, and top businessmen suddenly disappeared. The tabloids trumpeted the reign of a small, deformed man — or woman — spotted at the scenes. Strangely, Doc Savage was framed for the disappearances — and then the murders … But the Horrible Hunchback hadn’t counted on the wrath of the mighty Man of Bronze!

Printing History

Written by Lester Dent (1904-1959)

The Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Doc Savage Magazine 

Street & Smith Publications Inc

December 1936

Bantam Books

ISBN 553-05536

September 1970

B Is For..............................................................

B Is For

Busted Wheeler

Printing History

Written by Allan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Horwitz Group Books Pty Limited

Bucks Books

Published in Hong Kong 1979

Tower Publications Inc

Belmont Tower Books

ISBN 505-51414

1979

I Prefer Murder by Browning Norton & Charles A Landolf

Murder, Very Dry.....

Cover by Saul Levine

That's what the uninvited guest whispered, as Tim Fallon and his scared blonde ordered drinks. The service was fast. Minutes later the blonde lay dead. So began that night of horror, with Tim marked a killer and another girl, the lovely Alix Bentley, his prey! Desperately he eluded the police and as desperately she eluded him.  But her young beauty was just the kind to tempt a friend. At dawn, she saw her locked door opening.....

The guest was back...and he had a key!

Printing History

written by Frank Rowland & Charles A Landolf

Graphic Mystery

#132

1956

Mum's The Word For Murder by Brett Halliday

The Killer Placed An Ad..........

It was incredible, but true. Terror gripped the waiting city. A murderer was publishing ads in the newspaper announcing the exact time of his scheduled killings, and was getting away with it!

For detective Jerry Burke it was a special challenge, because the scornful threats were addressed ti him personally.

The times the killer struck, as he had proclaimed he would. And three times Jerry Burke played the fool, until a startling climax in a Mexican cafe untangles the unbelievable web of suspense and horror....

Printing History

Written by Davis Dresser (1904-1977)

Dell Publishing Company

Dell Books

#743

1953

#5918

July 1964