Lust Camp by Kevin North

Lust Camp

by Kevin North

Wild passions boil over in the blazing sun of the vast Midwest fruit orchards where men and women worked half naked and sex knew no restraints!

Wanton Harvest!

Cole Parrish was assigned to get the lowdown on the lives and loves of America's lusty migrant fruit pickers. When the sex hungry girls spotted the handsome stranger in the fields, he soon found himself with a harem on his hands! Cole had to fight off a small army of passionate women before he smashed the lecherous, greedy racket boss who was fattening on their misery.

Printing History

Written by Keven North

Art Enterprises, Inc

Epic Books

No 147

1962

Long Story Magazine #5

Long Story Magazine #5

The Wanton 

By Carter Brown

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

December 1959

Barye's Babes: Day 2

Barye's Babes: Day 2

A tribute to illustrator Barye Phillips (1924-1969)

Today we will feature Strangers In My Bed by Allen O'Quinn

Half wanton, half child, she kindled violence like a brush fire

Printing History

Written by Allen O'Quinn

Gold Medal Books

#871

Second Printing 1959

Sin Drunk by John Dexter

His Passion Pitch Made Society Wantons

Lust Sell......

and passion purveyor Pierre Drysdale, the Park Avenue interior decorator who spent more time on the client's bodies than he did on their wall. The lust merchant who pampered the idle monied wantons who needed a man and not an argument. And in Pierre there was never any argument, for the price war right and the women were ready, and he was the stud benefactor to their every wanton hunger. It was an easy sell, a sin harvest that would delight any conscienceless guy who was on the prowl for riches and witches. And each new mark on the avenue of passion tramps brought him a new way of sinning, a new method to sell his....

......Passion Product

Printing History

John Dexter

Midnight Reader

MR 478

March 1963

Too Hot To Handle by Orrie Hitt

If you wanted pleasure,

Kay would give you a fling!

Starkly reveals the tempestuous life of a wanton woman.

Printing History

Written by Orrie Edwin Hitt (1916-1975)

Beacon Books

B250 

1959

Day of the Dolls #6

Today we are almost done with the Day of the Dolls. All this week I have been showcasing a mystery title or two with Doll in the title. Why do you ask? Dolls. All through the late forties to the early sixties a doll would be associated with a hardboiled or noir title. Today is a special treat. Not one but two Dolls with the same title. 

Presenting

Death of a Doll

by Hilda Lawrence

Miss Small and Miss Brady do everything to make their boarders feel safe and secure: Hope House is one of the few places in new York City where a young working woman could enjoy a homey atmosphere at very little cost. When Ruth Miller moves in, however, the atmosphere seems to change, and when her body is found in the courtyard, the miasma engulfing Hope House becomes stifling. suddenly no one in Hope House is quite what she seems, and no one is above suspicion . . .

Printing History

Written by Hildegarde Kronmiller (1906-1976)

Simon & Schuster

April 1947

Death of a Doll

by Carter Brown

A private eye accepts a movie mogul's bid to track down a wandering wanton star in Florida. Her name was Gloria Van Raven and she preferred to party on a yacht of Edward Woolrich II. Until the party got too wild with a dixieland horn player sounding a lament in a polka dotted bikini lying dead at his feet.

 This title was originally posted in December 2010 in a slightly different form

Death of a Doll

And Featured during the 2013 Crime Fiction Alphabet
 The Letter E

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

 Numbered Series #11 1956
Second Collectors' Series  Vol 1 #20 October 1958

Reprint By Demand Series #22 July 1960

Long Story Magazine #21 April 1961

International Edition November 1962 (IE21) 1971 (IE70)

Note
This title was revised as The Ever-Loving Blues in 1961 for the USA market

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 W: Part Two

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just four weeks left. We are currently in week 23 with the letter W. 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: W is for The Wanton

Two beautiful nude corpses leave Lieutenant Al Wheeler in the middle of a society family's scandal 

 

Barye Philips Cover

  The beautiful blonde heiress was living high and fast until a killer slowed her down 

Robert McGinnis Cover

   When a pretty blond heiress is found hanging from a limb of a tree, twenty feet off the ground, wearing nothing but skin tight rope around her pretty neck...Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler goes into action. The rough and tough detective trades questions and answers with a volcanic brunette in a sultry couch session. Matches techniques with a gambler who knows all about feminine angles. Dodges the bullets of a killer who seems determined to build the largest collection of naked corpses in sunny California. 

Grant Roberts Cover

   Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #79 August1959

Long Story Magazine #5 December 1959

International Edition Series #10 December 1961, March 1965

New American Library Series

Signet Books (USA and Canada)

1st (1713) Sept 1959

2nd (1713) Canada 1959

3rd (D2962) 1966

New English Library

Four Square Books

1st (2252) Sept 1968

Other Covers 

UK

New English Library

 Four Square Books

 Sept 1968

Brazil

Publicado Pela Edicoes De Ouro

n/d

 

France

Gallimard

1960, 1971

 

Netherlands

 Middernacht

1962

 

Estonia

Katariina 

 1998

Russia

n/d

Germany/Switzerland

 Die Mitternachtbucher 

1962

 Germany/Austria

 Die Mitternachtbucher

 1974

Japan

 Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book 

1968

 

Notes

This title was originally published on  March 23, 2011 in a sightly different format.

The Wanton 

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter W: Part One

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just four weeks left. We are currently in week 23 with the letter W. 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: W is for The Wayward Wahine

The seductive rhythm of an exotic Hawaiian girl's primitive hula dance lures 

Danny Boyd into the arms of a killer.

Barye Philips Cover

  She was one hundred per cent impure Hawaiian. From her long and lustrous black hair to her small and delicate feet which moved as her whole body moved in a passionate pagan rhythm. With a sensuous gesture she stepped out of her grass skirt and into Danny Boyd's love life.

Robert McGinnis Cover

 On the sunny shares of beautiful Hawaii, private Danny Boyd goes hunting for a wealthy tycoon's missing wife. The trail starts out cold with a dead blonde, warms up with some buried treasure, and sizzles when Danny comes into close contact with a wahine who is wayward, wanton, and oh so willing to pitch woo Hawaiian style. With the curves and kisses and no holds barred. 

Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

 

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #84 February 1960
Long Story Magazine #11 June 1960

International Edition Series #16 April 1962

as The Wayward

International Edition Series #69 February 1971

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition CB 007A 1980
w/Walk Softly, Witch

New American Library

Signet Books

#1784 February 1960

#D3067 1966

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition  #9418 Sept 1980
w/Walk Softly, Witch

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter L...Part Two

Part 2 of the Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 Letter L

Carter Brown: L is for The Lady Is Transparent

Meet the only beauty who won't succumb to Al Wheeler's charms:
Delia- a wanton witch who must be about her business....of murder

   

Even Al Wheeler can't make this gorgeous ghost forget that her pleasure is murder   

Robert McGinnis Covers

A gabled mansion on Bald Mountain. A deserted room with its windows boarded, its door locked from the inside. And in the room the corpse of an unsuccessful suitor, his throat savagely and efficiently torn out. California cop Al Wheeler come to Bald Mountain to investigate the murder and finds himself the unwelcome guest of the Harvey Family.

   

Ellis

 His two luscious dark-haired daughters, Justine and Martha. 

Well traveled, money seeking Uncle Ben

 and the family ghost Delia, a passionate wanton who is a Spectre of Death.

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #101 1962

International Edition Series #52 1967

New American Library

Signet Books

S2148 July 1962

S2148 Canada

D3251 September 1967

D3251 September 1967 (Canada)

P4344 1970

Other Various Covers

Middernacht-Serie #53

Netherlands

n/d

 

  

Wennerberg 

Stockholm Sweden

1962

  

Valpas-Mainos 

Finland

1965

Gallimard  

Paris

1963,1978

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

Tokyo Japan

1963

Die Mitternachtsbucher
Germany and Switzerland
1964, 1976 

Russia
n/d

Note
This title was originally posted in a slightly different form in April 2011 and February 2012
The Lady Is Transparent

The Lady Is Transparent Dutch Edition

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter L...Part One

We are chugging, like a fast moving train, along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are up to the letter L. 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. This week I had a difficult time deciding which title to showcase. So I decided to do a three part Letter L. For the next three days I will highlight a different Carter Brown title.

First up this week

Carter Brown: L is for The Lady Is/Not Available

 

She was the most talented pro in the whole art colony.
Her sex appeal was sheer genius and pure murder!

Bella made friends at the drop of a bikini. She was a beautiful Bohemian who wore the scantiest of bathing suits when she painted, and less when she entertained. Her uninhibited hospitality made it hard for Lieutenant Al Wheeler to keep business before pleasure. But he was a cop and he was there to ask questions about a murder. 

  

An artist dies violently and Al Wheeler begins a deadly and dangerous case. A case that leads from an artist's studio to a tycoon's plush penthouse office. From a lovely wanton to a strait-laced society wife. From a mysterious picture to multiple death. 

Robert McGinnis Cover

  Who painted the lady without her clothes? When an oil tycoon commissions a young artist to do his wife's portrait, he hardly expected to see the finished product, perfect, pink-fleshed...and nude. It was too late for explanations. The artist lay dead beneath the easel, the picture was slashed with a cross of blood and the hysterical wife insisted she never took off her clothes. 

Robert McGinnis Cover

 

Robert McGinnis Cover

Mort Kunstler Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.
Sydney Australia

Numbered Series #105 1962,1963

International Edition Series #56 1968

Bolinda Publishing
Victoria Australia

Large Print Edition August 1999

New American Library

Signet Books

#2244 January 1963

D3410 March 1968

D3410 March 1968 (Canada)

Male Publishing Corp

Volume 13 No 5

May 1963

 The Naked Wanton
Condensed from The Lady Is Available
Art by Samson Pollen 

New English Library

Four Square Books

1st Edition 1964

#2127 April 1968

Other Publishers
 
ADA
 Russia
1993

 Die Mitternachtsbucher #264
Copyright 1965
Printed in German
Translated by Georg Ackerman

Middernacht-Serie

Netherlands

n/d

Valpas-Mainos 

Finland

1965

 

Gallimard  

Paris

1964,1977

Wennerberg 

Stockholm Sweden

1963

 

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

Tokyo Japan

1963