El Misterio De La Ballerina by Carter Brown

Mexican Edition of

The Bump And Grind Murders

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Caiman Collection 

Editorial Diana

#358

September 1965 

The Fabulous by Carter Brown

A cold corpse becomes a hot assignment to curvy blonde Mavis Seidlitz

   Printing History

Written by Allan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

International Edition #9

September 1961

Note

Revised title of None But the Lethal Heart

5th Anniversary

Today marks this blogs 5th anniversary 

This year, instead of rehashing the two book titles that got me started enjoying reading mysteries and spy stories. I will highlight the introduction of the characters of my favorite author, Mr Carter Brown. He brought into the world numerous characters with his stories and novelettes. He would settle on a handful of reoccurring characters, seven to be exact. His most famous would be Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler, in which he would appear from 1955 until 1984.
 

Al Wheeler (1955-1984)

Police Lieutenant in Pine City California

Danny Boyd (1957-1984)

New York City Private Eye that moves to California later in the series

Rick Holman (1961-1984)

Hollywood Trouble Shooter

Mavis Seidlitz (1955-1974)

 Blonde private investigator with Gracie Allen tendencies

 Randal Robert (1971-1976)

Lawyer 

Paul Donovan (1974-1979)

Millionaire Adventurer 

Larry Baker (1955-1975)

TV Gag Writer with his partner Boris Sivka

Off to another year

Bombe im Bikini by Carter Brown

Germany Edition of

Murder Wears A Mantilla

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (192-1985)

Ullstein Bucher #1142

Germany

1967 1970

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

Manana Es Asesinato by Carter Brown

Mexican Edition of Tomorrow Is Murder

The original post from March 4th, 2011

Tomorrow Is Murder

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Mexico

Editorial Diana S.A.

#217

1962

The Bump And Grind Murders (Revised) by Carter Brown

Mavis Siedlitz turns stripper to catch a killer

Grant Roberts Cover

Her disguise was a G-string, and when she belted them out for the boys in the back row, no one would guess Mavis Seidlitz was really a private eye!

Robert McGinnis Cover

The wildest, wackiest female operator in the business take the job to take off her clothes, as she plays bodyguard to a frightened stripper in a madcap whirl of babes, burlesque, and good old fashioned murder. 

 

 

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

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Numbered Series #121 (August 1965)

New American Library

Signet Books

G2541 (October 1964)

T5666 (1974)

Note
This title was originally posted on September 18, 2011
The Bump And Grind Murders by Carter Brown

Top 5 Posts of 2013

To ring in the new year, the Top 5 posts of 2013

Quite a collection of mysteries and suspense

From  July 7th

N is for None But the Lethal Heart

From August 19th

T is for Terror Comes Creeping

From September 30th

The Marine Corpse by William G Tapply

From September 11th 

W is for Wanton

From November 18th

Demolishers by Donald Hamilton

See you in 2014

Happy New Year

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter N

We are chugging, like a really fast moving train, along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are half way through with the Letter N. Kerry's Blog is kind enough to sponsor this community meme each and every week. The rules are very simple:  The posts 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: N is for None But the Lethal Heart

Grant Roberts Cover

    Mavis Seidlitz gets stuck with a corpse that's too hot to handle

Grant Roberts Cover

 Mavis is keeping company with a corpse and she's got to get rid of him fast. She tries to bury him, lose him, and even gives him away. But he persists in haunting her. The cops are on her heels and a gang of hoods is breathing down her neck. And someone seems determined to wrap her up in a slinky shroud. But here is the sizzling scorcher: A red-hot tale of murder and mayhem, chills and spills, and the daffiest detective work this side of a dizzy blonde bombshell, named Mavis Seidlitz.

Barye Phillips Cover

  Various Other Publisher Covers

United Kingdom

New English Library

Four Square Books

March 1967

Cover photograph by Cambell MacCallum

 Australia

 Horwitz Publications Inc

 June 1959

Grant Roberts Cover

Australia

 Horwitz Publications Inc

As The Fabulous

September 1961

  United States

New American Library

Signet Books

 1966

Robert McGinnis Cover

 Russia

1992

   Japan

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

1962

Japan

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

1977

Netherlands

  Middernacht  

1962

Finland

Valpas-Mainos  

1967

Germany

Ullstein Bucher

1967

 Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)
 

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #78 June 1959

Long Story Magazine #6 January 1960

International Edition #9 September 1961

(retitled as The Fabulous)

International Edition #64 April 1970

(back to original title)

New American Library

Signet Books

1st Printing (1694) August 1959

2nd Printing (1694) September 1959 

(Canada)

3rd Printing (D2849) 1966

Notes

This title originally posted in three parts in a slightly different format

From October 2010

 None But The Lethal Heart

From March 2011

None But The Lethal Heart 

 

From February 2012

None But The Lethal Heart (Dutch)

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter M

We are chugging, like a fast moving train, along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are about half way through with the Letter M. Kerry's Blog is kind enough to sponsor this community meme each and every week. The rules are very simple:  The posts 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: M is for Murder Wears A Mantilla

Mavis Seidlitz is the dizziest blonde who ever ended up in the Tunnel of Love after buying tickets for the Big Dipper. When she is not trying to fix her clothing, either a brazier, stockings, or chemise, she is a partner in Rio Investigations. As the story goes, Mavis is South of the border on vacation. She meets one bull fighter who she thinks is the dreamiest. The next bullfighter has a knife stuck in his back. So she starts investigating up until things get out of hand.  The Black Death, 40 million pesos, The Golden Inca, people with guns. so she sends a cable to her boss, Johnny Rio. HELP.

Robert McGinnis Cover

 Blonde bombshell Mavis hurries to a torrid rendezvous with a timid torero only to find that a killer got there first. Fleeing the murder scene, she runs smack into the waiting arms of Mexico's feared and fearless police chief, the Black Death.He slips away with her to the local police station, where he forces her to surrender her baggage claim check. When the police open Mavis' luggage, up pops....another corpse. OLE!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.
Sydney Australia

Numbered Series #50 1957
Reprinted By Demand Series #13 1959

International Edition Series #34 1963

New American Library

Signet Books
 S2048 February 1962
T5275 1973

Other Publisher Covers 

Valpas-Mainos 

Finland

1967

Middernacht-Serie

Netherlands  

1963

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

Tokyo Japan

1963

Gallimard  

Paris

1961,1974

New American Library

USA

1973

Note

This title was originally post on December 30, 2010 in a slightly different form.

Murder Wears A Mantilla

Sans violes by Carter Brown

French Edition of The Bump And Grind Murders

Printing History

Written by Allan G Yates (1923-1985)

La Poche Noire
Editions Gallimard
July 1968
32 4048

The original post from September 18, 2011
 The Bump and Grind Murders

And The Undead Sing by Carter Brown

The Hit Parade

Mavis Seidlitz, blonde bombshell and detective extraordinaire, thought pretending to be Sophie Ventura, biggest singing sensation on the charts, would be a breeze. Especially when her fee was full partnership in a detective agency. But Sophie was popular with some of the deadliest weirdos, and after being kidnapped and rekidnapped, threatened, tattooed, and molested, Mavis decided being a superstar was not her dish. Even swinging with the rock group The Undead could not tempt her once she'd tangled with a creep like "The Zombie." Mavis wanted out. But was it already too late? Had she really become gangland's #1 target in their private "hit" parade?

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

New American Library

Signet Books

ISBN 451 T5864

April 1974

Trivia

Mavis Seidlitz's last appearance. 

This title never appeared in Australia.

Carter Brown Collectors' Series Volume 1 Number 15

Second Collectors' Series

Volume 1 Number 15

Cover by Grant Roberts

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Contents

A Bullet For My Babe

Numbered Series #1 (September 1955)

Second Collectors' Series Vol 1 #15 (June 1958)

Floozie Out Of Focus

Novelette Series (January 1954)

First Collectors' Series #11 (1955)

Second Collectors' Series Vol 1 #15 (June 1958)

Trivia

Mavis Seidlitz appears as a secondary character in A Bullet For My Babe
The original post from October 2011

A Bullet For My Babe

Max Tindle is the primary character in Floozie Out Of Focus

The Loving And The Dead (3rd Edition) by Carter Brown

3rd Horwtiz Edition

Printing History

Horwitz Publications

International Edition Series #63 (1969)

Read more below
German Edition

US Editions

UK Edition


Trivia
This actually was not the first Mavis adventure. Mavis first appeared Honey, Here's Your Hearse from 1955.

Murder Is So Nostalgic! by Carter Brown

The century's sexiest sleuth finds herself snarled in a wild orgy of sex, witchcraft, and murder!

Robert McGinnis Cover

Well, That's Show Biz!

Some of filmdom's biggest names had been trapped in the scandal. There had been a ritual murder, a gory suicide, and a secret ceremony with the devil. And it had wrecked the lives of all concerned.... But that was several decades ago. or was it? For suddenly the aging stars of that Satanic show had assembled in the same house once more. And from the looks of things, they were planning a bloody comeback. Only this time, there would be no rave reviews, For not only was Mavis Seidlitz the only member of the audience, she was also to be cast as the star....

Horwitz Photo Cover

Printing History

Horwitz Publications 

Horwitz Group Books Pty Ltd

Numbered Series #165

ISBN 7255 0197 (1973)

Printed in Hong Kong by Peninsula Press

New American Library

Signet Books

T 5064 (June 1972)

Meisje In Moeilijkheden by Carter Brown

Dutch Edition of None But The Lethal Heart

Read more here.
None But The Lethal Heart II

And here.
None But The Lethal Heart

Printing History

Middernacht #11
No Date

Im Kille-Kille-Keller by Carter Brown

German Edition of The Loving And the Dead

Robert McGinnis Cover

Read more here
The Loving And the Dead

And here
The Loving And The Dead (UK)

Printing History
Ullstein Bucher #1255 (1969)
Printed In West Berlin

Long Story Magazine #19 by Carter Brown

Lament for a Lousy Lover

an astrologer's forecast spells death for the star of a TV Western.

A man-hungry heroine and a cast of potential killers on location for a spectacular TV Western made Pine City police officer Lieutenant Al Wheeler's horoscope highly dangerous! Taking his cue from the corpse who's been robbed of a fabulous diamond ring, the tough free-wheeling cop tries to shake the clues of wacky blonde bombshell Mavis Seidlitz and trap a desperate murderer, in the most sensational case of his career. 

Printing History

Horwitz Publications, Inc
Long Story Magazine #19
February 1961