Sunday, March 28, 2021

Saigon by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

Saigon
by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

"Little Paris" where love talk is wire tapped and each caress can lead to sudden death.


Claire La Farge, a widow of a French intelligence officer, lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam. She receives a coded message in the form of a knotted belt (quipu) from a former associate of her husband. She sends her trusted servant, Saito, to Saigon to place an advert in the personal column of the Times of Vietnam hoping to contact former colleagues of her late husband who can decode the message. Raoul Dupre, a former French intelligence officer and businessman in Saigon, reads the ad and makes contact with AXE. Nick Carter is sent to Saigon with orders to help Raoul Dupre contact Claire La Farge.

Bonus Covers


Printing History
Written by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp
Conde Nast Publications, Inc
Award Books
1st Printing: December 1964 (A122)
2nd Printing: July 1965 (A122)
3rd Printing: April 1966 (A122)
4th Printing: August 1966 (A122)
5th Printing: 1970 (A625)

Tandem Books
ISBN 426-3885
1969, 1970
ISBN 426-12597
1973

Brown Watson Ltd
Digit House
1965, April 1966
R926

Monday, March 22, 2021

Fraulein Spy by Valerie Moolman

Fraulein Spy
by Valerie Moolman

Sex, espionage, and sadism mark the deadly struggle against a master plan for world conquest.


The Spy Who Mixed Love and Duty
Nick Carter is on the trail of Judas, the master spy first encountered in Run, Spy, Run. Posing as an investigative journalist for a West German tabloid newspaper, Nick tracks Judas to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is living among the expatriate German community under the alias Hugo Bronson. Nick Carter meets an informant at his home who reveals that Bronson is actually Martin Bormann, one of Adolf Hitler's closest aides and who was thought to have escaped from Germany at the end of World War II.


Printing History
Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp
Conde Nast Publications, Inc
Award Books
1st Printing: October 1964 (A118)
2nd Printing: July 1965 (A118)
3rd Printing: April 1966 (A118)
4th Printing: August 1966 (A118)
5th Printing: 1970 (A624)
6th Printing 1971 (A937)
7th Printing 1972 (AN1101)
8th Printing 1974 (AN1101

Tandem Books
ISBN 426-3922
1969, 1970
ISBN 426-12650
1973

Brown Watson Ltd
Digit House
1965, April 1966
R903

Presses De La Cite (Paris)
#763 May 1966
Translated by Paul Grabette
Bussiera a Saint-Amand France

Friday, March 19, 2021

Safari For Spies by Valerie Moolman

Safari For Spies
by Valerie Moolman

Casablanca.....International crossroads of sex and espionage and a death trap for Nick Carter!



Nick Carter, taking on the role of a concerned diplomat, arrives in the American embassy of a new African country to find out who obliterated a tiny village, killing innocent women and children. It's clear that whoever is responsible is also behind the terrorism in the streets of the new capital. The evidence points to American supported guerillas. N3's mission id\to find the real perpetrators, before the Soviets take full advantage of another stepping stone in Africa!



Printing History
Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp
Conde Nast Publications, Inc
Award Books
1st Printing: August 1964 (A114)
2nd Printing: July 1965 (A114)
3rd Printing: April 1966 (A114)
4th Printing: August 1966 (A114)
5th Printing: 1970 (A623)

Tandem Books
ISBN 426-3893
1969, 1970
ISBN 426-12642
June 1975

Star Books
ISBN 352-30584
1979

Charter Books
ISBN 441-10325-1
January 1981

Brown Watson Ltd
Digit House
1965, April 1966
R915

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Checkmate In Rio by Valerie Moolman

Checkmate In Rio
by Valerie Moolman

N3 heads for a vacation on the beach...and ends up caught in a deadly snare!


AXE's man in Rio wasn't there anymore. In fact, the whole intelligence apparatus that had been built with such care and operated with such cunning had just winked out like a shorted TV tube. National security, violence and a mysterious women...the assignment had to be Nick Carter.


Bonus Cover


Printing History
Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp
Conde Nast Publications, Inc
Award Books
1st Printing: May 1964 (A110)
2nd Printing: July 1965 (A110)
3rd Printing: July 1966 (A110)
4th Printing: 1968 (A382)
5th Printing: 1970 (A639)

Tandem Books
ISBN 426-6998-6
1968, 1973

Charter Books
ISBN 441-10325-1
August 1979

Brown Watson Ltd
Digit House
 1965
R919

Winther, Inc
1969

Friday, March 12, 2021

The China Doll by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

The China Doll 
by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

Sex and savagery are the facts of life for every spy, and to survive,
he's better be good at both...........


Nick Carter is pitted against CLAW, most brutal and subtle of all enemy organizations. He is sent to penetrate the Forbidden City, where no white man has ever set foot, to seek out and destroy the legendary agent who threatens American security. Nick must make his choices between Yasunara "Daughter of the Dragon" and Taka, concubine whose Oriental training in the arts of sex are the double agent's most devastating weapon.


Printing History
Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999) and Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp
Conde Nast Publications, Inc
Award Books
1st Printing: April 1964 (A105)
2nd Printing: July 1965 (A105)
3rd Printing: July 1966 (A105)
4th Printing: 1968 (A380)
5th Printing: 1970 (A638)


Brown Watson Ltd
Digit House
December 1965
R912