Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter L...Part Two

Part 2 of the Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 Letter L

Carter Brown: L is for The Lady Is Transparent

Meet the only beauty who won't succumb to Al Wheeler's charms:
Delia- a wanton witch who must be about her business....of murder

   

Even Al Wheeler can't make this gorgeous ghost forget that her pleasure is murder   

Robert McGinnis Covers

A gabled mansion on Bald Mountain. A deserted room with its windows boarded, its door locked from the inside. And in the room the corpse of an unsuccessful suitor, his throat savagely and efficiently torn out. California cop Al Wheeler come to Bald Mountain to investigate the murder and finds himself the unwelcome guest of the Harvey Family.

   

Ellis

 His two luscious dark-haired daughters, Justine and Martha. 

Well traveled, money seeking Uncle Ben

 and the family ghost Delia, a passionate wanton who is a Spectre of Death.

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #101 1962

International Edition Series #52 1967

New American Library

Signet Books

S2148 July 1962

S2148 Canada

D3251 September 1967

D3251 September 1967 (Canada)

P4344 1970

Other Various Covers

Middernacht-Serie #53

Netherlands

n/d

 

  

Wennerberg 

Stockholm Sweden

1962

  

Valpas-Mainos 

Finland

1965

Gallimard  

Paris

1963,1978

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

Tokyo Japan

1963

Die Mitternachtsbucher
Germany and Switzerland
1964, 1976 

Russia
n/d

Note
This title was originally posted in a slightly different form in April 2011 and February 2012
The Lady Is Transparent

The Lady Is Transparent Dutch Edition