The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps
rolling along as we come to the end of this time around. The week is the final week as we highlight the Letter Z. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise has hosted this community meme. Over at her blog she has outlined the rules that we follow every week. 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: Z is for Zelda
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| Dutch Cover by W Lapp (1963) |
The seductive star's sweet blackmailing scheme looked like being shot to pieces by one of her three ex-husbands.
Till murder took a hand in her game. Introducing new hero Rick Holman,
Hollywood's Mr Fix-It. Rick was elected to dispose of the corpse or take
the killer's rap for Zelda.
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| Robert McGinnis Cover |
To 10 million men Zelda Roxane was the supreme symbol of sophisticated
sex. But to the general who masterminded a Latin American revolution,
the ex-Nazi turned millionaire industrialist, the has-been producer
about to pull the biggest deal of his life, the lecherous press agent
whose advances she's scorned, Zelda meant disgrace...ruin...and death.
Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)
Horwitz Publications, Inc
Numbered Series #96 December 1961
International Edition Series #32 June 1963
Double Edition Series #12A 1982
New American Library
Signet Books
S2033 December 1961
D3430 1968
Double Edition AE1629 July 1982
New English Library
Four Square Books
#659 1962
Other Various Covers
Australia
Horwitz Publications, Inc
New English Library
Four Square Books
#659 1962
Other Various Covers
Australia
Horwitz Publications, Inc
1961
Denmark
Winther
n/d
Germany
Die Mitternachtbucher
1966
United States
Signet Books
July 1982
Japan
Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book
1963
Finland
Valpas-Mainos
1967
Notes
This title was originally posted in a slightly different formats.
Zelda from April 2011
Dutch Zelda from September 2011
Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 from November 2012
