Had I But Groaned by Carter Brown

Her magic was as old as the hills. 

She just took off her clothes and there he was..spellbound.

Robert McGinnis Cover

She was a witch, naturally. Why else would an able-minded young man accept an invitation to a dark old house with a curse upon it. Where a lake holds a dread secret and someone is about to die a horrible death? Which witch is going to get Larry Baker as she goes bump in the night?

Signet Reprint

Larry Baker walks into a blood-chilling, swinging Sabbath complete with an old hag, a dangerous enchanting witch, and one ripe virgin, about to be sacrificed.....

UK Edition

Printing History

Horwtiz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #142 1968

New American Library

Signet Books

D3380 February 1968

Y7222 1976

New English Library

Four Square Books

as The Witches

#2495 May 1969

The Vulcan Disaster by George Warren

The microfilm was missing.

Already more than a dozen men had been brutally murdered for it.

And Nick Carter was scheduled to be next.

Around the world....on the trail of murder

Saigon

It was the last days of the war, and in the middle of the bloodshed Nick has to find a man named Walter Corbin. And the roll of microfilm. He found his man just in time to see his head scattered into a million pieces. 

Hong Kong

The trail from sampan city, where silence was safety, to a series of brutal, vicious murders, Nick Carter Killmaster was certain of one thing. The organization behind those killings had more at stake than roll of film.

Washington

Nick needed an update from Hawk. He called the States, but AXE had vanished! Free to die in Hong Kong gutter while powerful men made plans for global revenge!

Printing History

Written by George Warren

Award AQ 1600 1976

Trivia

Noteworthy cover: Sybil Pincus, editor for Award Books, her successor Peter Titus, and Award employee Tony Puzo (Mario Puzo's son) all posed for the cover.

The Wind Up Doll by Carter Brown

Rick Holman investigates the love life of a Hollywood sensation in a fast-action thriller about movies, moguls, and murder.

Robert McGinnis Cover 

The screen siren reclined on a nine-foot bed wearing black silk pajamas just sheer enough to show why she was the international symbol of sex. When Toni Astor's latest Romeo does a fatal nose dive from a balcony, private eye Rick Holman draws the delectable challenge of interrogating a movie star. The dangerous challenge of trying to find out why the girl with the lethal curves is murder in men!

Printing History 

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #116 1963

International Edition Series #48 1965

Double Edition Series #12A 1982

w/Zelda

Double Edition Series

New American Library

Signet Books

D2413 January 1964

T4826 November 1971

 T4826 November 1971 (Canada)

AE1629 July 1982 

w/Zelda

The SpyWho Didn't by Jack Laflin

Gregory Hiller's most incredible adventure

Gregory Hiller reviewed all the aspects of the weird case that had started so unexpectedly three weeks earlier. an unreconstructed Nazi. Twenty million dollars worth of eighteenth century Spanish gold. Explosives in large quantities. it added up to one inescapable conclusion: A plot, widespread, lethal in purpose, well organized in execution. So intent had Hiller become on simultaneously thinking and keeping Von Eckhardt's group under surveillance, he was completely unprepared to learn he was no longer alone, that a second interested spectator had joined the scene. He heard a female voice say, "Do not more or you will regret it." The voice was pure velvet, but the solid object boring into his backbone was unmistakably steel.

Printing History

Written by Jack Laflin

Belmont B50-691 July 1966

The Turncoat by Leon Lazarus

Wanted: Gregor Salobin

Political Defector

Russian Scientist

Missing Person

Universal Edition

In Salobin's head was enough information to keep the United States on top of the Soviets for years. Salobin had been feeding the CIA until things got too hot in Russia and he slipped over the border into Turkey, boarding a train for Istanbul. But he never arrived. Washington got  a note: Send a man to Beirut to meet a two-bit hood named Rafei. Rafei would take Nick Carter to where Salobin was being held prisoner. But someone else knew about the meeting. Someone who was planning an ambush that would eliminate Nick and the most important Russian defector in ten years. In a single burst of machine gun fire!!

Printing History

Written by Leon Lazarus

Award AQ 1581 1976

Universal 426 18518 1978

Butler #1: The Hydra Conspiracy by Philip Kirk

From CIA agent to murder suspect

Butler was a CIA man who criticized the Agency too much. At least that is what they told him. The next day he was the prime suspect in a sensational murder case. Or did a foreign power want him to get rattled enough to give away Agency secrets? Butler was not going to wait and find out. Escaping to Mexico where he kept a secret bank account, Butler got ready for a very pleasant temporary retirement. Unfortunately, things were not going to be that easy.

Printing History

Written by Leonard Levinson

Leisure Books

Nordon Publications Inc 

8439 655 January 1979

Dorchester Publishing Company Inc

8439 2038 1983

Who Killed Doctor Sex? by Carter Brown

The movie colony panics when the favorite psychiatrist dies and his records fall into the hands of an avenging blackmailer....

Robert McGinnis Cover

Stamp out sex!

One by one the movieland big names heard the deceased psychiatrist's taped played back their intimate, sinful secrets. And one by one they waited for the touch. When it came it was a shocker. The asking price was not cash, but laying off the sex! Love life in Hollywood comes to a dead standstill while troubleshooter Rick Holman tracks down a strange criminal. The avenging blackmailer who is out to kill sex, even if it means murder.

Their psychiatrist was nuts. 

The Hollywood movie queen told him all about her irregular sex life with lurid details painted right in. Her ex-husband explained just why their famous marriage was a bust. And the buxom secretary disclosed the cozy role she played in an unusual domestic setup. But they did not know that "Dr. Sex" was a happy voyeur who taped all their sizzling confessions. And played them back privately, for kicks. A group of panicky playmate hires Rick to stop a blackmailer from turning private sins into public scandal when a well-known psychiatrist is killed accidentally, on purpose.

Signet Photo Cover

Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #122 1965

New American Library

Signet Books

D2581 November 1964

T5744 1974

The Snake Flag Conspiracy by Saul Wernick

All Strangers.

All Unlikely Killers.

All Sharing One Common Goal.

Destroy Nick Carter!

Universal Edition

Economic Disaster

 The KGB had an agent in Boston with a foolproof plan to wreck the American economy in its Bicentennial year. By forcing the biggest banks to dump all their stocks at the same time. A plant in one of Boston's old families. And the manipulation of their cast financial power, would trigger total economic collapse!

Award Edition

Nick Carter Killmaster N3 had to discover the identity of the phoney "Boston Brahmin" and make his sudden death look like an accident, before the collapse began. But there was a welcoming committee of thousands of killers waiting for him.

George Gross Cover

Don't tread on me.

Do.... and you die.

Printing History

Written by Saul Wernick

Award AQ1576 1976

Universal 426 18542 1978

Charter 441 77193 December 1981

The Up-Tight Blonde by Carter Brown

One fair-haired bird leads to four naked chicks.

And the liveliest exposure to murder Al Wheeler ever had.

Signet Edition with Robert McGinnis Cover

They looked different with their clothes on. But Lieutenant Al Wheeler was a very perceptive cop, and with the chicks involved in this case he did not mind asking questions after hours. What the answers added up to were two blondes, a brunette, and a redhead, with more than four nude portraits and one dead artist lover in common. 

Horwitz Edition

Judging from the barest of facts, Al figured he had stumbled onto a new kind of flesh game. But it was not until he started to strip away the alibis that he realized he didn't know the rules. And someone was going to make certain that he didn't pass go again.....

Signet Reprint

Printing History

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #148 1970

New American Library

Signet Books

P3955 August 1969

P3955 Canada

Y7545 1978

Y7545 Canada

The Ambassador's Plot by Stephen Frances

John Gail Spy Chiller

A deadly new twist to the game of espionage, blackmail, and seduction. 

A high speed journey into terror and sudden death for British agent John Gail.

John Gail's new assignment focused on a highly respected, silver-haired British diplomat. It began with blackmail, with the help of a sealed camera, a two-way mirror, a vial of aphrodisiac, and a beautiful 15 year old who had a secret arsenal of erotic talents.

The mission was planned to block a power play in Paris and prevent Europe from exploding into war. It seemed fool-proof. But only a fool would trust a school girl when the fate of nations are at stake.

Printing History

Written by Stephen Frances

Award A570X 1970

Formerly titled The Sad And Tender Flesh.