Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter P

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along. We are currently in week 16 with the letter P. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post 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 featuring a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet. 

Carter Brown: P is for The Passionate

Barye Phillips Cover

 Twin temptresses out for kicks any way they come

including shrunken heads, corpses, and lady killers

Robert McGinnis Cover

     Rival For A Corpse

The sizzling brunette collected shrunken heads but she offered Al Wheeler five thousand dollars to bring her the live heart of her ex-husband. The torrid redhead collected men and she offered Al Wheeler her pretty self. The ladies were twin sisters. Each, in her own seductive way, was trying   to take the tenacious cop's mind off their matched set of corpses. But Al wasn't buying their brand of pleasure. Not while he suspected that their trademark....was murder.

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #77 1959

Long Story Magazine #4 Nov 1959

International Edition #8 November 1961

Signet Editions

1st (1674) July 1959

2nd (1674) Canada Aug 1959

3rd (G2537) Sept 1964

4th (G2537) Canada 1964

5th (T5609) 1973

Other Various Cover

United States
Signet Books
1973

Australia
Horwitz Publications
November 1961

Australia

Horwitz Publications

Long Story Magazine

1959

 Brazil
Publicado Pela Edicoes De Ouro
n/d

Denmark
Winther
1961

Netherlands
Middernacht
1962

France
Gallimard
1959, 1971, 1987

Japan
Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book 
 1960, 1977

Finland
Valpas-Mainos
1961

 Note
This title was originally published in a slightly different format on February 24, 2011
The Passionate