Good-Knife Sweetheart by Carter Brown

Good-Knife Sweetheart

by Carter Brown

With a million bucks to gain and nothing to lose why would she remember old friends? 

So it was lights out and …..

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

Printing History

Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Transport Publishing Company

for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novelette Series 1954

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

First Collectors' Series Volume 12 (1955)

w/Homicide Harem and Poison Ivy

as Good Knife Sweetheart

Second Collectors' Series Vol 1 #10 (1957)

w/Wreath For Rebecca and Perfumed Poison

as Good Knife Sweetheart

Cover by Theo Batten

Second Collectors Series Vol 2 #10 (July 1960)

w/Curves For A Coroner

as Good Knife Sweetie

Murder Paris Fashion by Carter Brown

Murder Paris Fashion

by Carter Brown

First Edition

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

Second Edition

Third Edition

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Novel Series 1954

Second Collectors' Series Vol 1 #1 1957

w/My Mermaid Murmurs Murder

Second Collectors' Series Vol 2 #7 1960

w/The Lady Is A Killer

Sob Sister Cries Murder by Carter Brown

Her Story Scared 

A Gangster's Moll 

Right Into 

The Killer's Arms.....

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Transport Publishing Co

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Unnumbered Series

1955

Second Collectors' Series
w/Maid For Murder

Volume  1  #6

1957

Reprinted by Demand Series #27

September 1960

Bonus Covers

Bernard Backburn Cover

Honey, Here's Your Hearse! by Carter Brown

Mavis Seidlitz Story

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

She's slaying them in the aisles for peanuts 

till death swings from a high wire to change her tactics......

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Transport Publishing Company

for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novel Series
July 1955

Second Collectors' Series
Volume 1 Number 4
July 1957
w/The Two-Timing Blonde

Homicide Hoyden by Carter Brown

I don't want to play "Murder" with a

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

5 million bucks and her taking ways got this dame everything but a murder rap.

She figured Scott Denton could take that....

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Transport Publishing Company

for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novel Series
1955

Second Collectors' Series
Volume 1 No 3
w/Curtain For A Chorine
July 1957

Reprint By Demand Series
#28
1960

Murder! She Says! by Carter Brown

Louis's making his dough from the clip joints 

and owing the redhead and me plenty.

I can't figure a way to collect until.................

Printing History

Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Transport Publishing Company

for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc

 

 Novelette Series 1954

First Collectors' Series Volume 13 (1955)

w/Perfumed Poison and Sin-Sation Sadie 

Second Collectors' Series

Volume 1 #23 (1959)

w/Strictly For Felony

Homicide Harem by Carter Brown

Is there a private eye in the house who'll volunteer for a case of watchdog in the.......

Nick Knight is given an assignment for a Prince al-Zaman to guard his Harem. International intrigue and murder are on the menu.

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Transport Publishing Company
for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novelette Series

"Lovely" Mystery

 1954


First Collectors' Series Volume 12 (1955)
w/Good Knife Sweetheart and Poison Ivy


Vintage Series Vol 2
w/Felon Angel
copyright 1965
February 1966

Bonus Cover

Butterfly Nett by Carter Brown

Blackmail was her hobby 

and the specimens she collected

 paid till they yelled, "murder" paid.... 

Bernard Blackburn Cover

Transport Publishing Company

for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novelette Series

"Lovely" Mystery

December 1953

First Collectors' Series
w/Chill On Chili & Honky Tonk Homicide
No. 10
May 1955

Murder In March Madness Day #3

Welcome to Murder In March Madness. I will highlight one title with the word Murder, or a variant,  in it each day all during the month of March. Today is the third day day of this event and I will highlight the Carter Brown mystery Maid For Murder.

Maid For Murder

Written by Allen G Yates (1922-1985)

She was  two-timing sister with a double-crossing blackmailer

She called for protection when murder haunted Bramley Manor. 

But who would want to make a ghost out of a beautiful dame like Prudence?
 

Cover By Bernard Blackburn

 Main Character: Gregory Fenner

 Printing History

Transport Publishing Co Pty Ltd.
for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novel Series
January 1955

Second Collectors' Series

Volume 1 Number 6 1957

w/Sob-Sister Cries Murder

Reprint By Demand Series #32
1960

 

Nemesis Wore Nylons by Carter Brown

A Carter Brown "Lovely" Mystery

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

 The cop was fall guy for a disappearing corpse and a beautiful blonde

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

  

Transport Publishing Company

for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc
 

Novel Series

1954

Second Collectors' Series 

w/The Frame Is Beautiful

Volume 1 No 7

1957

Reprint by Demand Series

#29

1960

Murder- Paris Fashion by Carter Brown

Murder- Paris Fashion

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

 Series Character: Johnny Lane

 

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Novel Series 1954
Second  Collectors' Series Volume 1 #1 (1957)
w/My Mermaid Murmurs Murder

Second  Collectors' Series Volume 2 #7 (1960)

w/The Lady is A Killer (The Lady Is Murder)

Bonus

Strip Without Tease by Carter Brown

Her Ritzy Paris Clothes Told An Exclusive Story

They Came Back As Ransom Notes

Cover By Bernard Blackburn

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Transport Publishing Company

for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc
 

Novel Series

1954

as Stripper, You've Sinned

Debra Paget Cover

Numbered Series #36

1956

Moira Bertram Cover

 First Collectors' Series

Volume 1 No 28

1959

w/Alias a Lady

Good-Knife Sweetheart by Carter Brown

With a million bucks to gain and nothing to lose why would she remember old friends? So it was lights out and ...........

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

 Printing History

Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Transport Publishing Company
for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc
 
 Novelette Series 1954
First Collectors' Series Volume 12 (1955)
w/Homicide Harem and Poison Ivy
as Goodknife Sweetheart

Second Collectors' Series Vol 1 #10 (1957)
w/Wreath For Rebecca and Perfumed Poison
as Good-Knife Sweetheart

Cover by Theo Batten

  Second Collectors Series Vol 2 #10 (July 1960)
w/Curves For A Coroner 
as Good-Knife, Sweetie

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter Y

 The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just two more weeks left. We are currently in week 25 with the letter Y, next week is the big finale. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post must be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction. This time around I will be featuring a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet.

Carter Brown: Y is for Yoga Shrouds Yolande

Bernard Blackburn Cover

  Yolande was a dream who had a vision. 

So they told her about the Trance of Death. 

Wake up baby, before..................

Printing History

 Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc
Novelette Series (February 1954)
First Collector's Series Volume 11 (1955)
w/ Felon Angel and Floozie Out of Focus
Second Collector's Series Vol 1 #14 (April 1958)
w/Cutie Cashed His Chips (US title The Million Dollar Babe)
Vintage Series #1 (1965)
w/Poison Ivy

Another Australian Cover

Notes
Somewhere between the originally printing and the First Collector's Series the title was slightly changed.

Slaughter In Satin by Carter Brown

With a gun in her hand she was.......

Printing History
  Transport Publishing Company Pty. Ltd

Novelette Series
as A Genuine "Lovely" Mystery
  1954

Horwitz Publications, Inc
for and on behalf of  Transport Publishing Company Pty. Ltd
First Collectors' Series #14
w/ Pagan Perilous and Moonshine Momma
July 1955

Bernard Blackburn Cover

Second Collectors' Series Volume 1 #9
w/Fraulein Is Feline and Moonshine Momma
1958

First Collectors' Series #14

First Collectors' Series

Volume 14

Cover Photograph by Bernard Blackburn

Three Stories included

Slaughter In Satin (1954)

Moonshine Momma (1953)

Pagan Perilous (1954)

Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc 

for and on behalf of Transport Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.

July 1955

Trivia

Each story was published separately in the Novelette (Lovely Mystery) Series

The Wench Is Wicked by Carter Brown

Lieutenant Al Wheeler's debut

Bernard Blackburn Cover

Al Wheeler is just a cop. A plain simple cop even if Captain Parker figures Al is the most unorthodox Lieutenant who stepped beyond the line of duty to take a blonde home. The patrolman finds a corpse in a gravel pit. Al finds Deidre Damour in her room at the hotel. That is a story in itself! But there is more... A cop gets permanently retired with a bullet in the head. Al gets suspended for some trivial reason, they think he let the murderer escape and he mislaid a cop car someplace. So that leaves Al a lot of time on his hands, time to fill and the only way he can think of filling it is to look up some people he knows. Goldie, the thrush at the "Eldorado". The blonde receptionist at the Valley Hotel who can't be as dumb as she looks. Deidre, the answer to a million guy's prayers when they are not saying them out loud. But like some guy said, "If it isn't women, it's work". And Al has some bright ideas about who might have done the murdering and that's not really good because that gives the murderer some bright ideas about Al. He would not mind taking that step, except it's around a hundred feet down to the next one. He wouldn't take it but for the gun in his back!

Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #6 (#5) (1955)

Trivia

The numbering is either misprinted on the cover or this title was #6 in the UK and #5 in Australia.

Maid For Murder by Carter Brown

She called for protection when murder haunted Bramley Manor. 

But who would want to make a ghost out of a beautiful dame like Prudence?

Cover by Bernard  Blackburn

Printing History

Main Character: Gregory Fenner

Transport Publishing Co Pty Ltd.

January 1955

Second Collectors' Series

Volume 1 Number 6 1957

w/Sob-Sister Cries Murder

Reprint By Demand Series

#32 1960