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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

Bid The Baby Bye-Bye by Carter Brown

Bid The Baby Bye-Bye

by Carter Brown

Steve Morgan is sent to Wakeville to pay off a blackmailer. Wakeville was a nice, quiet, and friendly small town until he picked up the blonde. She shows him the sites of the town but forgot to tell him about her boyfriend. The boyfriend was a bad tempered giant. Then the original guy disappears and Steve finds a corpse in his hotel room. The local law decides he is the murderer until a smart layer springs Morgan right into trouble. The trouble is the silver blonde journalist whose figure is news all year round. Now if Morgan can stay alive....

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Novel Series #26

October 1956

Second Collectors' Series

w/Sinsation Sadie

Volume 1 #24

April 1959

Murder Is A Broad by Carter Brown

Murder Is A Broad

by Carter Brown

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Novelette Series

1953

Curtains For a Chorine by Carter Brown

Curtains For a Chorine

by Carter Brown

Al Burlington dealt in gags. But the stripper's corpse was real.....

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novel Series 1955

Second Collectors' Series Volume 1 No 3

w/Homicide Hoyden July 1957

Reprint By Demand Series #31 November 1960

Angel by Carter Brown

Angel

by Carter Brown

 

Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler meets a blonde tease whose good-luck charms are murder!

Grant Roberts Cover

Angel was 100% female, she was the answer to every mans dream. Beside her, even Venus took second place. One minute with Angel and Al Wheeler actually found himself enjoying the fact he had been sent to check out a routine traffic complaint. Five minutes with Angel and Al knew he was in for the right place, at the right time, with the right girl. Because in those five minutes, Wheeler had become a witness to murder.

When unorthodox cop Al Wheeler goes investigating a complaint about the dangerous skylarks of ex-Air Force heroes, the situation suddenly explodes into a baffling murder case.

Joy Ride to Death

The murder victim was the wrong man. The ex-jet flier took up the plane out of turn. And because he did, he died out of turn. All the evidence there was disintegrated in mid-air with the exploding plane. The mourners included six prime suspects: Three other ex-jet jockeys, ex-buddies of the murderer man, an airplane mechanic with a grudge, and two delectable dolls, one of whom was the intended victim's wife, the other his current "girl of the week".

Bonus Cover

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #97 January 1962

International Edition Series #33 July 1963

Double Edition Series #10A 1981

New American Library

Signet Books

S2094 March 1962

D3413 1969

AE1027 September 1981

Baby, You're Guilt-Edged by Carter Brown

Baby, You're Guilt-Edged

by Carter Brown

There were two of them in the police car and one look at the accident was enough. The guy who had been driving needed a preacher, not an ambulance. A routine assignment for a cop, or so Dave Gault thought, but the cop who had been in the police car with him ended up dead that night. A week later, he ended up in the pen with a two to five stretch which showed Dave was a cop with different ambitions anyway. Then his wife disappeared and he figured the pen could get along without him. That was when Dave met Lorraine, the girl who fixed the bullet hole in his shoulder amongst other things. The rest of the problem was simple, all he had to do was find out how he was framed and who did it. And find out why that envelope was worth as much as it seemed to be. Didn't he mention the envelope? That was what started the whole trouble...…

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #19 July 1956

Second Collectors' Series Volume 1 #22 (February 1959)

w/Pagan Perilous

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

No Body She Knows by Carter Brown

No Body She Knows

By Carter Brown

Her drive landed this babe way off course....

with a guy who wanted her to tee up for murder...

Bert Butler saw the body the first time, then he saw her again, the third time she was gone, …and the fourth time? The fourth time she fell out of his wardrobe. The headlines read "Juicy Murder" An ordinary bullet in the head. The picture in the paper was none other than Mr Butler with the caption "Killer At Large" Butler was employed by the soft drink company "Juicy" to promote a golf tournament, clean and wholesome fun until the blonde teed off and her caddy went off to find the ball in the rough. Boy did he scream, he found a corpse on links a nice neat hole in his forehead.

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #58 1958

Second Collectors' Series Vol 2 #5 1960

w/Slaughter In Satin

Last Note For A Lovely by Carter Brown

Last Note For A Lovely

by Carter Brown

She was a thrush with a throaty voice..

Sing baby sing!

I've got to face unless you tell me how this dame died...twice!

Carl Vesper, jazz critic of the magazine Offbeat, stumbles across her body and later she makes an appearance on stage. So who is more surprised, her murdered or Carl? Then Carl gets news from the Police that Toots Yabach was killed in a car accident. Carl had his hands full with a corpse that was killed twice.

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #49 1957

Reprinted By Demand #14 1959 

The Frame Is Beautiful by Carter Brown

The Frame Is Beautiful

by Carter Brown

She went to a high class beauty salon where the treatment was murder!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Novel Series (no numbers) 1954

Second Collectors Series Vol 1 no 7 October 1957

Reprint By Demand Series #30 October 1960

2 From Greece

Carter Brown Double Feature From Greece

The Witches (Had I But Groaned)

Angyra Publishing House

#170

1973 Athens Greece

The Coven

Angyra Publishing House

#176

August 1973 Athens Greece

Only The Very Rich by Carter Brown

Only The Very Rich

by Carter Brown

Private eye Danny Boyd like his women wealthy and willing

but the price tag on this one was $M-U-R-D-E-R!

Jet Set Sex

When the love rites of the very rich are interrupted by a corpse impaled on a tree, a forty million dollar widow hires Danny Boyd to clean up the mess, or shove it out of sight. But a missing fortune in jewels complicate matters, especially when Danny finds out the widow only wore them to bed!. The plot explodes at an English country manor during a weekend of sex and sadism that climaxes with...murder!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Signet Books

April 1969 (P3842)

1977 (Y7464)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Numbered Series #146

1969

Sinner, You Slay Me! by Carter Brown

Sinner, You Slay Me!

Carter Brown

Always knock before entering your own flat. I didn't and found a wife I hadn't married and the murder I hadn't committed.

Squeak it was called. The hottest of the scandal mags. And Marcus Mouse had just got a job with them. Maybe it was an unfortunate coincidence that his name happened to be Mouse. Isobel, the girl he loved, thought he was more Mouse than Man. His first assignment was in Hollywood. His editor, Herman J. Herman, thought of everything. He even supplied him with a wife. One would expect a star like Lola Monterey who was currently disposing of her fourth and gazing starry-eyed at her fifth to be murdered, wouldn't you? Well she wasn't. But the murder centered around her. Of course there were other girlfriends, and just to make it cost, Isobel arrived on the scene. Mouse had told her he was not really married to Virginia, it wouldn't have helped, but then there was the second murder, with Marcus set up as the fall guy for it. He did not have time for dames any more, well, almost!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #42 (1957)

Reprinted By Demand Series #11 (Sept 1959)

E is For................................

E is for...............................

The Exotic

by Carter Brown

Horwitz Edition

Signet Edition

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #94 1961

International Edition Series #30 1963

New American Library

Signet Books

#S2009 October 1961

Catch Me A Phoenix! by Carter Brown

Today is the end of Alan G Yates Month here and we will highlight.....

Catch Me A Phoenix!

by Carter Brown

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #124 1965

International Edition Series # 76 1972 

Trouble Is a Dame (II) by Carter Brown

Alan G Yates Month keeps rolling along with this duplicate title from 1954. 

She Wanted Me To Be A Scientific Shamus....

But How Can You Analyse A Blonde When.......

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Large Format Series

July 1954

Insel des Todes (Lover, Don't Come Back) by Carter Brown

Insel des Todes (Lover, Don't Come Back) 

by Carter Brown

Continuing the month long tribute to Alan G Yates and pseudonyms. Here is the German edition of Lover, Don't Come Back.

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Ullstein

Ullstein Bucher

1977

Dutch Carter Brown

Dood door Geweld by Carter Brown

Dutch Edition of Suddenly By Violence

Our month long tribute to Australian author Alan G Yates

Cover Hans Borregach

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Middernacht #12

No Date

Ready When You Are, CB! by Alan G Yates

Ready When You Are, CB! 

by Alan G Yates

We are in the middle of  the tribute to Alan G Yates for the month of May. This time around it is his autobiography. It an important insight into the life and times of one of the world's successful novelist. This autobiography is an amusing and warm account of the road to success and the people met along the way. Mr Yates is also arguably the most witty, outrageous, and versatile of them all mystery authors. Yates has written science fiction, westerns, and even a comic or two. His mysteries have sold more than 100 million copies and have been published in fourteen languages in twenty-two countries. 

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Melbourne Macmillan

1983