Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter T

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch. We are currently in week 20 with the letter T. 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: T is for Terror Comes Creeping

 

Barye Phillips Cover

  The beautiful brunette's mother had made her a millionaire. 

 Now her father wanted to make her a corpse.

The brunette was very beautiful and very scared. She looked private Danny Boyd in the eye and shuddered once. Then she calmly told him that her father was planning on killing her. She claimed he had murdered her brother and was trying to get rid of her sister. And that she was third on the list. She had no proof to back her story, only cold green cash. She might be crazy, but she was also crazy rich. She was Danny's favorite kind of client. So Danny decided to take the lovely lady's case. And tag her father a killer. 

  Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #81 November 1959

Long Story Magazine # 17 December 1960

International Edition #14 February 1962

International Edition #67 October 1970

New American Library

Signet Books (USA)

1st (1750) December 1959

Reprint (D2934) June 1966

Signet Books (Canada)

1st (1750) February 1960

2nd (D2934) June 1966

 

 Other Editions

 New English Library (UK)

 Four Square Books

April 1967  #1806

 United States/Canada
 Signet Books
1966

Robert McGinnis Cover

  Australia
Horwitz Publications Inc
1962

Australia
Horwitz Publications Inc
1970

Germany
Ullstein Bucher
1968

Russia
2008
w/Lover Don't Come Back

France
Gallimard
1972

Netherlands
 Middernacht
1962

Mexico
Diana
1961

Finland
Valpar-Mainos
1962

Japan
Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Series 
1964

Brazil
Publicado Pela Edicoes De Ouro
n/d