Thursday, June 29, 2017

In a Deadly Vein by Brett Halliday

Shayne..........Cognac.......
An after dinner blonde....
     sudden death..............


Mike Shayne is on vacation when he met this gorgeous trick with a head of golden hair that's worth half of Fort Knox. Her old man has found a mine worth the other half. Putting them together, she stacks up as a lucky girl. Then she disappears. With her looks, and her old man's loot, Mike figured she's a diamond studded candidate for the morgue. That makes her his dish. After all, murder and blondes are Shayne's business.

Printing History
written by Davis Dresser (1904-1977)

copyright 1943

Mayflower Dell
#4016
1964

Trivia
This exact cover was featured on Frank Kane's Red Hot Ice

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

For Men Only Magazine

For Men Only Magazine
 
Cover by Mort Kunstler
 Contents
The Naked Wench
(Original title The Sinners AUS)
(original title The Girl Who Was Possessed USA) 
You can read it here The Sinners
by Carter Brown

"Neutralize The Bridge At Remagen"
by Leon Lazarus

Printing History
published by Newsstand Publications Inc
August 1963

Monday, June 19, 2017

Donna Died Laughing (II) by Carter Brown

Donna Died Laughing
 

Drew Summers had a quiet, uncluttered life as a theatrical producer and he wondered  it to stay that way. Then The Mostest alias Angela Angelic, hit him with a typhoon. Then somebody got murdered and a couple of thugs beat him up. So Drew bought a gun to be ready for the next time. Drew then bought himself a psychiatrist because his personality changes. 

"Yeah ,I'll say! I am the toughest private eye that ever spat in anybody's eye. When I move in they bury 'em standing up!"

His personality changed and changed......

"As secret agent working for Department X, my mission is quite clear, my dear girl! The solving of the murders is incidental to the unmasking of the beautiful Soviet spy, Olga Pulovsky!"

If it was not for one guy, Drew was another and if he was not him, he was somebody else? The murders? Heck! The three of Drew should not have any trouble solving them, should he?
 

Printing History
written by Allan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc
Numbered Series #29 (1956)
Reprinted by Demand Series #8 (June 1959)

 as Naurava kuolema
Valpas-Mainos  
Alavus Finland (1959)

as Trois Tetes Sous Le Meme Bonnet
Gallimard  
Paris France (1959, 1975)


Bonus Cover


Sunday, June 18, 2017

Terror In Paradise by Jim Kent

 Terror In Paradise by Jim Kent

Cover by Col Cameron

Wilms screamed as blood trickled from his legs

He had killed a Jap and that was punishable by a slow and cruel death. Their bayonets pierced his legs and shoulders. The Chinese knife torture was kid's stuff compared to this. Wilms was left hanging as a reminder to the others. Such atrocities were committed on the beautiful island of Paradise.

Printing History
written by Jim Kent
copyright 1970
Scripts Publications 
 ISBN 7252 0072
1971 

Friday, June 16, 2017

Winner Take All by Mark Clements

The inside story of the beauty contest racket and the star-struck young girls it corrupts!!!

Paul Rader Cover
  The Finalists

Jeanne....the day she received the telegram, she was in a hotel room, sprawled nakedly across a mussed bed beside a snoring man whose name she couldn't recall.

Louise....the evening she received her telegram, she was in the midst of teaching her youthful boyfriend exactly how she expected him to treat her ...and please her.

Patti...the afternoon she received the telegram, she was throwing a very special cocktail party for a small group of very intimate friends...all of them very attractive and very feminine. 

Printing History
Written by Mark Clements

A Midwood Book
Tower Publications, Inc
32-522
1965

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Greek Fire by Glen Chase

Cherry was menaced by a monster and an ex-Gestapo officer!



Beauty and the Beast
Cherry Delight, female agent of D.U.E. (Department of Unusual Events) is sent to Greece to investigate the sighting of an ex-Nazi and mythological creatures... And Cherry would get her man...or beast!

Printing History
Written by Glen Chase

Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
LB462DK
January 1977
 

Friday, June 2, 2017

Lust at Leisure by Michael Avallone

Everyone Knew Betty
The Sexpot Of The Suburbs!


An explosive story of a frigid woman who turned into a suburban menace!

Printing History
Written by Micheal Avallone (1924-1999)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation
Beacon Signal Books 
B611F
1963

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Carter Brown Collectors' Series Volume 2 No 7

2nd Collectors' Series Volume 2 Number 7

Murder Paris Fashion and The Lady Is A Killer


 Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Murder Paris Fashion
1st Edition 1954
2nd Edition 1957
3rd Edition 1960

The Lady Is A Killer
1st Edition 1951
2nd Edition 1955
3rd Edition 1958
4th Edition 1960
 (Originally Titled The Lady Is Murder)