That's Piracy, My Pet by Carter Brown

Where there's murder and millions there's Mimi

The dame who collects payoffs in penthouses.....

This one you can't collect baby unless it's over my dead body.....

After the episode of the Brothers of the Golden Lily, Andy Kane swore off buccaneering like it was Chinese gin. But when a redheaded Spaniard called Carmen Diez whirled into his life.....Hell! A guy can change his mind, can't he? Especially when she was the second Carmen Diez he'd met inside of 24 hours. That spelled trouble, trouble with a a capital D for dynamite. Andy had to blast his way out of the Chinese millionaire's palace to get the Golden Eagle, and the $20,000. The payoff came when Carmen Diez (Don't ask Andy which one!) told him the eagle was phony! That left Andy in the hotseat, so he organized an escape junk for Macao. But wait...how come he is heading for Red China?

Printing History

 Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Numbered Series #51

November 1957

Second Collectors' Series 

Volume 2 Number 4

w/Meet A Body

1959

Revisions

Bird, In A Guilt-Edged Cage

International Edition Series #28 

February 1963

Het Mysterie van de Gouden Adelaar

Midderacht Series #57

 Netherlands n/d

The Guilt-Edged Cage

 New American Library

Signet Books

 #2220 November 1962

P4003 1970

Cover by Robert McGinnis 

Hong Kong Hooker

For Men Only Magazine

Volume 11 Number 10

Blonde Bad and Beautiful (Revised) by Carter Brown

She wanted that underwater million dollars.

So did a corpse.

The guy had just made Andy Kane a proposition worth one million dollars when he dropped dead at Andy's feet. The proposition? Skin dive for a million dollars planted in Kwan-Po Bay. Funny thing, though, a dame had made that proposition two hours before. Now the way Andy figured it, a woman is a question mark but a cadaver is definitely a full stop. So the dame and Andy found a partnership. But that was where the Brothers of the Golden Lily took a hand and Andy guessed they were all brothers under the skin. But Andy drew the line at a brother who wanted to carve his initials on his backbone the hard way. Starting stomach-wise and working through.....

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)
  

Horwitz Publications Inc.
Numbered Series #47 (September 1957)
Reprinted By Demand Series #21 (July 1960)

as The Hong Kong Caper

Horwitz Publications Inc.
International Edition Series #24 (October 1962)
International Edition Series #71 (1971)

Robert McGinnis Cover

New American Library
Signet Books
#2180 (September 1962)
#2180 (September 1962)  Canada
#3151 (1968)

as Hot Blonde From Hong Kong
For Men Only Magazine
June 1965

This title was originally posted on
Blond, Bad, And Beautiful December 2010
For Men Only March 2011
Hong Kong Caper March 2012

Carter Brown Comic #3

Sensational Full-Length Mysteries All In Pictures

Featuring

Dame Out of Depth

Judy Plays Judo

Bullets For A Blonde

Trivia
Dame Out of Depth is the condensed version of Blonde Bad, and Beautiful (aka The Hong Kong Caper)
Blonde Bad and Beautiful

The Hong Kong Caper (Reprint) by Carter Brown

Ladykiller Andy Kane is propositioned by two exotic adventuresses with lovely smiles, lethal bodies, and a treasure map. Where X marks murder!

Printing History

Horwitz Publications

ISBN 7255 0118

 International Edition #71 (1971)

Read more here. From December 26, 2010.

Blonde, Bad, and Beautiful by Carter Brown

 Notes

First published in a slightly different form under the title Blonde, Bad, and Beautiful in September 1957 and reprinted in July 1960. Then revised as The Hong Kong Caper in October 1962.

Bird In A Guilt-Edged Cage by Carter Brown

A persuasive senorita named Carmen hires Andy Kane to steal a priceless gold eagle from the wealthiest and most dangerous man in Hong Kong.

Horwitz 1963 Edition

The beautiful brunette was willing and wealthy. She was offering Andy Kane $20,000 to take a priceless gold eagle from the most dangerous man in  Hong Kong. But the adventure-loving Andy soon realized that he was the one who had been taken, and he was set up for murder...his own! Andy knew it was a suicide proposition. She wanted him to walk into Ng Mao's mansion, with more guards than the US Mint, and walk away with the gold eagle. She wanted him to steal it.But for $20,000 Andy would dare anything, even death.

Signet 4th Printing

Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc



International Edition Series #28 1963
First published in 1957 under the title That's Piracy, My Pet

New American Library
Signet Books
as The Guilt-Edged Cage
#2220 November 1962
P4003 1970
Cover by Robert McGinnis 


This title was reprinted for Men Only Magazine in 1964
For Men Only Magazine 1964

For Men Only Magazine 1964

Volume 11 Number 10

Featuring the Carter Brown title The Guilt Edged Cage published in 1962 by Signet Books. Horwitz originally published this title in 1957 under the version That's Privacy My Pet.

For Men Only Magazine

June 1965

Featuring the Carter Brown title The Hong Kong Caper aka Blonde, Bad, and Beautiful

Blonde, Bad, And Beautiful by Carter Brown

Blonde, Bad, And Beautiful by Carter Brown

Lady-killer Andy Kane is propositioned by two adventuresses with lovely smiles, lethal bodies, and a treasure map....where X marks the spot. 

1957 Horwitz Edition

She looked like a dream come true. Her silk-flowered sheath was skin tight, slit to the thigh. She was all dressed up for business...brunette, gorgeous, and greedy. Out of the Hong Kong night came two dangerous dames, one blonde, the other brunette, and approached Andy Kane with the same proposition. Each had a map of a sunken treasure in Kwan-Po Bay. Each wanted the tough and handsome American to take her through a Chinese patrol to the site of a lost fortune. It was up to Andy to decide whether he preferred blondes or brunettes, or staying alive. Too many people had big ideas about the treasure and some included murder.  Blonde, Bad, and Beautiful was number 47 in the numbered Series and was revised by Horwitz and reissued in 1962. The US edition retained the revised title and was published by New American Library in 1962 under the Signet imprint.

1962 Revised Horwitz Edition

2nd US Signet Printing