Monday, April 15, 2013

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

2 comments:

  1. Scott - Those covers are just too much! Nice choice for 'B.'

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  2. My favorite cover in this bunch is the Blonde Verdict cover. Usually the Robert McGinnis cover would get my vote, but not this time.

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