The Top 5 Posts Of 2014
The top spot this year goes to........
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September 14th
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January 17th
See you in 2015!
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
2014 Fiction Challenge Update
My update with the USA Fiction Challenge.
So far, 32 states and 34 titles.
I should be able to complete this in 2015
I should be able to complete this in 2015
Monday, December 29, 2014
The Ghost Of Nick Carter
Nick Carter Weekly
No 621
November 21, 1908
The Ghost Of Nick Carter
or The Secret of The Second Sight Seer
Street & Smith Publishers
New York City
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Twins
Twins
Two covers by Robert McGinnis
Germany Edition
None But The Lethal Heart
by Carter Brown
Ullstein Bucher
#1152
1967 Frankfurt Germany
1968 West Berlin Germany
ISBN 354 801152
Modesty Blaise
by Peter O'Donnell
Fawcett Crest Books
1965
R899
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 7
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #7
Presenting
So Cold, My Bed
by Sam S. Taylor
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| Cover by Robert Maguire |
Printing History
Written by Sam S Taylor
New American Library
Signet Books
#1247
1955
Friday, December 26, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 6
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #6
Presenting
The Venus Death
by Ben Benson
Printing History
Written by Ben Benson
The Venus Death
by Ben Benson
Printing History
Written by Ben Benson
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 5
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #5
Presenting
A Corpse For Christmas by Henry Kane
Printing History
Written by Henry Kane
Dell
#735
1953
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 4
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #4
Presenting
Dead Game by Michael Avallone
Printing History
Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999)
Dead Game by Michael Avallone
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| Cover by |
Printing History
Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999)
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Girls with Guns Day 3
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #3
Presenting
Baby Your Type's Murder
by Marc Brody
Printing History
Written by W. H. ‘Bill’ Williams
Horwitz Publications Inc.
for and on behalf of Transport Publishing Company
February 1958
Monday, December 22, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 2
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #2
Presenting
So Dead The Rose
by M.E. Chaber
Printing History
Written by
by M.E. Chaber
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Written by
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Girls With Guns Day 1
Girls With Guns Holiday Edition
Day #1
Presenting
Carter Brown Collectors' Series #8
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| Cover by Gene Lett |
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
copyright
1955
Transport Publishing Company
for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inccopyright
1955
Saturday, December 13, 2014
USA Fiction Challenge: Rhode Island
Today is anther stop in the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge. The goal is to stop on every state and showcase a title from that state. It looks like I will not be wrapping this up this year, but hope to come close. The next stop is our smallest state of Rhode Island. And also called State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Presenting
The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike
The story, set in the fictional Rhode Island
town of Eastwick in the late 1960s It follows the witches Alexandra
Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont, who have acquired their powers
after leaving or being left by their husbands. Their coven
is upset by the arrival of a devil-like character, Daryl Van Horne. This
mysterious Daryl seduces each of the women, encouraging them to play
with their powers and creating a scandal in the town.
Printing History
Written by John Updike (1932-2009)
Knoft
ISBN 394 53760
April 1984
April 1984
In 1987 the novel was adapted into a film starring Jack Nicholson as Darryl, Cher as Alexandra, Susan Sarandon as Jane, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Sukie
Friday, December 12, 2014
Donavan's Day by Carter Brown
Death's Head
It looked like a plain brown package, but what it contained was more explosive than a bomb. Either someone had a bizarre sense of humor, or they just liked to send Paul Donavan, international playboy and meddler in revolutions, the gruesomely grimacing heads of hired terrorists. But Paul was not going to sit around waiting for the next shipment of corpses. Especially when a wealthy brunette beauty volunteered to help him dispose of the terrorists, heads and all. So Donavan, along with two buxom babes and a well trained muscle man, decided to pay the kingpin of killers a surprise visit. be he didn't know who the real kingpin was. And if he did not find out fast, Paul could really lose his head....!
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
copyright 1975
Horwitz Group Books Pty Ltd
Hong Kong
Horwitz Publications Inc
1976
copyright 1975
Horwitz Group Books Pty Ltd
Hong Kong
Horwitz Publications Inc
1976
New American Library
Signet Books
ISBN 451 Y6716
Signet Books
ISBN 451 Y6716
October 1975
Monday, December 8, 2014
You Never Know With Women by James Hadley Chase
He could have quit when he met the sleep walker stripper.
Now it was too late.
He was wanted for murder!
It was sucker bait and he took it!
Floyd Jackson, private investigator and sometime blackmailer, was out of a license and out of dough. So, when he was offered ten crisp hundred dollar bills, he decided to take them. Even though the assignment was robbery. All he had to do was get past some man hungry dogs, break into a millionaire's castle and steal a gold compact. Jackson was smart enough to know it was a phoney proposition. But he didn't figure he'd run into a murder that could be pinned on him.
Printing History
Written by René Lodge Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985)
Jarrolds Publishers Ltd.
January 1949
Simon & Shuster Inc
Pocket Books
ISBN 671 75716
August 1972
Jarrolds Publishers Ltd.
January 1949
Simon & Shuster Inc
Pocket Books
ISBN 671 75716
August 1972
Saturday, December 6, 2014
USA Fiction Challenge: New Jersey
The next stop on our journey to visit each and every state is the Garden State or New Jersey.
Unbalanced Accounts
by Kate Gallison
The year was 1977, when everybody smoked in the office, nobody earned a
living wage, bosses called their clerks "my girls", and any idiot could
get a job with the State of New Jersey. Onto this scene came
down at heel Trenton divorce detective Nick Magaracz. Nick is looking for nine
thousand dollars in stolen welfare checks and solving this case looked like
a lead-pipe cinch, until the bodies began to fall.
Printing History
Written by Kathleen Gallison Dunn (1939- )
Little Brown and Company
ISBN 316 30288
April 1986
Little Brown and Company
ISBN 316 30288
April 1986
Friday, December 5, 2014
The Dame by Carter Brown
A film star, a corpse,
and a swimming pool make trouble for Al Wheeler
Police Lt Al Wheeler is out to stop the curvy blonde movie queen being cast in a fatal part. She is Hollywood's hottest property but somebody's cast her as a cold corpse.
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| Barye Phillips Cover |
Stand in for Death
The
flaxen haired blonde was very beautiful and very naked, except for the
knife she wore in her back. She made a honey of a corpse even though she
was the wrong girl for the part. And when the killer discovered the
mistake and realized the scene needed to be shot again. California cop
Al Wheeler was already on the killer's trail, ready to ring down the
curtain on this lethal killer before the killer made some other beauty
take her final bow.
Printing History
Australia (February 1962)
UK (September 1966)
Australia (June 1977)
Russia (1992)
Mexico (1963)
Finland (1961)
Netherlands (1962)
Murder in the Cast
The husband: He's a philandering mate, a ham actor, a handsome heel.
The husband's mistress: She's a volcanic brunette in the suggestion of a bikini.
The would be producer: He;s a small man with big, big plans.
The wealthy financier: He was devoted his life to the mad pursuit of money.
Each
of these four people had his or her own special reason for wanting to
see Judy Manner dead. One of them tried once and will try again, in his
or her own sweet time. In this fast paced scorcher, Police Lieutenant Al
Wheeler plans a murder to catch a murderer.
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| Grant Roberts/Robert McGinnis Cover |
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)
Horwitz Publications Inc
Numbered Series #82 Oct 1959
Long Story Magazine #8 March 1960
International Edition #13 Feb 1962
International Edition #66 1970, June 1977
New American Library
Signet Books
Signet Books
1st (1738) November 1959
2nd December 1959(Canada)
3rd (D2827) 1965
4th (Q6402) 1974
Four Square Books
1st (1614) September 1966
Bonus CoversAustralia (February 1962)
UK (September 1966)
Australia (June 1977)
Russia (1992)
Mexico (1963)
Finland (1961)
Netherlands (1962)
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Miss Callaghan Comes To Grief by James Hadley Chase
Banned in the UK
Author and Publisher Fined
Not of any particular
Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who have disappeared
from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and are seen no more by those
who knew and loved them. This is also the story of Raven, who played
with clockwork trains, the leader of the White Slave Ring in East St.
Louis, who was responsible for the keeping to full strength the army of
women for the service of men.
Printing History
Written by René Lodge Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985)
copyright 1941
Black Curtain Press
May 2013
Bonus Covers
France (1996)
Blackmask.com (2010)
Kindle (2013)
Monday, December 1, 2014
Goldfinger (1964)
50th Anniversary
James Bond investigates gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger and the eventual uncovering of Goldfinger's plans to attack the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
Cast
Sean Connery as James Bond
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger
Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson
Harold Sakata as Oddjob
Tania Mallet as Tilly Masterson
Bernard Lee as M
Cec Linder as Felix Leiter
Martin Benson as Mr. Solo
Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger
Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson
Harold Sakata as Oddjob
Tania Mallet as Tilly Masterson
Bernard Lee as M
Cec Linder as Felix Leiter
Martin Benson as Mr. Solo
Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
Directed by Guy Hamilton
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