Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter B

I am back this year with the community meme Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 from Kerry's Blog. 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 doing a post on a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet.

Carter Brown: B is for The Brazen

Sex explodes into murder as Al Wheeler discovers that love can be lethal.....
    

Barye Phillips Cover

Al is drinking at this bar when a guy comes in and drops dead at his feet. It turns out the dead guy is a lawyer and the dead lawyer has set up a meeting with Wheeler and keels over killed by curare. Al gets to meet a redhead secretary, a blonde widow, and a silver blonde. But Al's trouble is that he is an unorthodox cop and this is an unorthodox case.

An ice-cold wife,
A fiery mistress,
And the dead man neither mourns

Robert McGinnis Cover

 They lure Pine City Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler into a sizzling nest of vipers, including a hot-shot lawyer, a hot-headed mobster, and a hot-blooded redhead. All dynamite, all at murderously close range!

German Edition

  Printing History

Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications
as Blonde Verdict 
Novel Series #13 May 1956
as The Brazen

Numbered Series #88 September 1960

International Edition Series #20 August 1962

Double Edition Series #8A February 1981
ISBN 7255 771
w/The Stripper

New American Library

Signet Books

S1836 August 1960

P4298 1970

J9575 February 1981
AE1704 1982
w/The Stripper