Web Of Spies by Manning Lee Stokes

Web Of Spies

by Manning Lee Stokes

Killmaster's most perilous assignment-smash Spain's notorious espionage ring...The Spiders

Somewhere in Spain's Costa Brava a beautiful Englishwoman was being seduced. Alicia Todd was one of the world's scientific brains. She was being persuaded to defect to the East. Nick Carter was somewhere in the area. His orders were the same as the Soviets, win Alicia Todd over or kill her. But there was a third group in the Costa Brava. Die Spinne..The Spinners. They were notorious for smuggling ex-Nazis out of Germany. Alicia Todd was the bait.

Bonus Cover

Publishing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

First Printing (A163F) January 1966

Second Printing (A288X) September 1967

Mayflower-Dell 

First Printing (9441-8) 1967

Second Mayflower Printing 1968

Third Mayflower Printing (583 11393 1 2)1969

Fourth Mayflower Printing (583 11393 1 2) 1970

Fifth Mayflower Printing (583 11393 1 2) 1974

Man's Adventure January 1963

 Man's Adventure

Selected Contents

Part-Time Prostitute 

by Wanda Young

The Skin Of A Living Legend

by Tom Marlboro

A Nympho For The Nazis

by Raoul Chambrun

Race For Her Body

by Luke Prubaker

Printing History

Stanley Publications, Inc

Volume 4 #4

January 1963

I Know My Love by Fan Nichols

I Know My Love

by Fan Nichols

They were two of a kind...and

Their kind didn't play by any rules

Margo was many things to many men.....

To Harley, the chauffer, she was a tantalizing prize that he intended to win, no matter what he had to do.

To Curtis Frayne, she was a luscious stepdaughter whom he'd initiated into the pleasures of sex. Now she  needed his guidance in more complicated affairs.

To Jim, the private eye, she was a tempting antagonist. His job was to keep his eyes on her, but he couldn't keep his hands off her.

Was any of them man enough to handle that strange mixture of beauty and bitchiness called  Margo Leeds?

Printing History

Written by Fan Nichols

as Double Murder On The Rocks, Please

Bachelor Magazine

August 1957 

Popular Library

Popular Giant Eagle Books (G231)

April 1958

MacFadden-Bartell Corporation

MacFadden Books (411)

1971

Only The Very Rich by Carter Brown

Only The Very Rich

by Carter Brown

Private eye Danny Boyd like his women wealthy and willing

but the price tag on this one was $M-U-R-D-E-R!

Jet Set Sex

When the love rites of the very rich are interrupted by a corpse impaled on a tree, a forty million dollar widow hires Danny Boyd to clean up the mess, or shove it out of sight. But a missing fortune in jewels complicate matters, especially when Danny finds out the widow only wore them to bed!. The plot explodes at an English country manor during a weekend of sex and sadism that climaxes with...murder!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Signet Books

April 1969 (P3842)

1977 (Y7464)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Numbered Series #146

1969

Istanbul by Manning Lee Stokes

Istanbul

by Manning Lee Stokes

Poppies the color of blood make a trail of intrigue and destruction

George Gross Cover

If it had been only opium smuggling across the Turkish Border or the savage murder of a girl named Mija at the notorious Cinema Blue. AXE would had never been involved. But the stakes were very high. Nothing less than the total destruction of the world in World War III. Nick's mission was to kill four men. These men were part of a local murder for hire for the largest drug syndicate in the world. The men, Maurice Defarge, Dr Joseph Six, Carlos Gonzalaz, and Johnny Ruthless.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

First Printing Oct 1965 (A152F)

Second Printing Aug 1966 (A152)

Third Printing 1968 (A384F)

Fourth Printing 1970 (A640X) 

Fifth Award 1972 (AN1095) 

Sixth Award 1974 (AN1095) 

Tandem Books

First Printing 1968 

(T244)

Second Printing 1971 

ISBN 426 5792

Charter Books

First Printing January 1981 

ISBN 441 37483

Sinner, You Slay Me! by Carter Brown

Sinner, You Slay Me!

Carter Brown

Always knock before entering your own flat. I didn't and found a wife I hadn't married and the murder I hadn't committed.

Squeak it was called. The hottest of the scandal mags. And Marcus Mouse had just got a job with them. Maybe it was an unfortunate coincidence that his name happened to be Mouse. Isobel, the girl he loved, thought he was more Mouse than Man. His first assignment was in Hollywood. His editor, Herman J. Herman, thought of everything. He even supplied him with a wife. One would expect a star like Lola Monterey who was currently disposing of her fourth and gazing starry-eyed at her fifth to be murdered, wouldn't you? Well she wasn't. But the murder centered around her. Of course there were other girlfriends, and just to make it cost, Isobel arrived on the scene. Mouse had told her he was not really married to Virginia, it wouldn't have helped, but then there was the second murder, with Marcus set up as the fall guy for it. He did not have time for dames any more, well, almost!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #42 (1957)

Reprinted By Demand Series #11 (Sept 1959)

The Eyes Of The Tiger by Manning Lee Stokes

The Eyes Of The Tiger

by Manning Lee Stokes

The little room, buried deep in the living rock of the old Schloss, reeked of evil and pain. Rader and his men did not wear black hoods and masks, but the effect was the same, they were torturers...

The young baroness' feet were already anchored to the rack. She was screaming in terror. The curse of the golden statue with the ruby eyes was about to claim another victim.

Nick Carter is given the task of recovering some Nazi loot. This loot is from a Japanese temple that was presented to Adolph Hitler as a token of Axis partnership. As the story goes, the loot lay in a a Swiss bank account protected by a kill on sight order by two hand picked elite SS guards.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: September 1965 (A152)

2nd Printing: August 1966 (A152)

3rd Printing: 1969 (A315)

4th Printing: 1970 (A315)

5th Printing 1973 (AN1132)

Charter Books

January 1981

ISBN 441-22407

Mayflower/Dell 

2437

1967

Mayflower Books

113737

1968,1969

ISBN 583 11028

1970,1970,1974

The 13th Spy by Valerie Moolman

The 13th Spy

by Valerie Moolman

Moscow is the hotspot for the "AXE" group's most explosive action

When an American CIA agent posted in Moscow is killed in an accident in Russia, and American Embassy records are in his briefcase disclosing top-secret recordings of Russian conversations, it looks like the American agent was spying on Russia. But when hallucinating drugs are found in his system, they are not so sure it’s an American plot, but decide to use it to force America to prove that it wasn’t; just in case it’s their pals the Red Chinese. Nick Carter is sent to Russia in a complicated maneuver disguised first as another agent Russia knows about, and then assumes the guise of a mole. When he first arrives he’s saddled with one of their top agents, to keep an eye on him. A woman, of course, but she is gargantuan, and has a sense of humor. Nick instantly takes a liking to her; he does find a Russian ballerina to have an affair with on the side. There is a secret Brotherhood of 12, consisting of Chinese agents, seeking to cause problems between Russia and America, while obtaining Russian secrets for themselves.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: May 1965 (A139)

2nd Printing: July 1966 (A139)

3rd Printing: August 1966 (A139)

4th Printing: 1970 (A626)

5th Printing 1972 (A942)

6th Printing 1974 (AN1100)

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-3906

1969,1970

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965, April 1966

R924

A Bullet For Fidel by Valerie Moolman

A Bullet For Fidel

by Valerie Moolman

The Doomsday weapon in Cuban hands threaten to explode World War III

Cuba.....International spy-nest festering 90 mile from America's shore. The eyes of Nick Carter had pierce the camouflage covering the Doomsday missiles. But the eyes had pierced Nick's disguise, too. He was in Carmella's arms when the man with the sword cane arrived, planning to neutralize two traitors with a single stroke.

They found the first agent dead, his corpse mutilated and bloody. Before dying he left one clue. The word "star" written in his own blood on the filthy floor. So began Nick Carter's mission, a hunt and destroy mission for a doomsday weapon in Fidel Castro's hands!

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: March 1965 (A130)

2nd Printing: July 1966 (A130)

3rd Printing: August 1966 (A130)

4th Printing: 1973 (AN1271)

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-3914

1969

ISBN 426-12562

1975

Star Books

ISBN 352-30468

1979

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965

R927

Saigon by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

Saigon

by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

"Little Paris" where love talk is wire tapped and each caress can lead to sudden death.

Claire La Farge, a widow of a French intelligence officer, lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam. She receives a coded message in the form of a knotted belt (quipu) from a former associate of her husband. She sends her trusted servant, Saito, to Saigon to place an advert in the personal column of the Times of Vietnam hoping to contact former colleagues of her late husband who can decode the message. Raoul Dupre, a former French intelligence officer and businessman in Saigon, reads the ad and makes contact with AXE. Nick Carter is sent to Saigon with orders to help Raoul Dupre contact Claire La Farge.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: December 1964 (A122)

2nd Printing: July 1965 (A122)

3rd Printing: April 1966 (A122)

4th Printing: August 1966 (A122)

5th Printing: 1970 (A625)

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-3885

1969, 1970

ISBN 426-12597

1973

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965, April 1966

R926