The Wind-Up Doll (Revised) by Carter Brown

Rick Holman investigates the love life of a Hollywood sensation in a fast-action thriller about movies, moguls, and murder.

Grant Roberts Cover

Did you hear about the murderous wind-up doll?
Rick Holman found it was no joke when the spring snapped.....

The screen siren reclined on a nine-foot bed wearing black silk pajamas just sheer enough to show why she was the international symbol of sex. When Toni Astor's latest Romeo does a fatal nose dive from a balcony, private eye Rick Holman draws the delectable challenge of interrogating a movie star. The dangerous challenge of trying to find out why the girl with the lethal curves is murder in men!

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

copyright 1963

Horwitz Publications, Inc
Numbered Series #116 (January 1964)
International Edition Series #48 (July 1965)
Double Edition Series #12A (1982)
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New American Library
Signet Books
G2413 (January 1964)
T4826 (November 1971)
AE1629 (July 1982)
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Other Covers

Finland
Valpos-Mainos
1966

 

Japan

Hayakawa Books

 1971

Trivia
The Japanese title is spelt wrong.