Monday, December 31, 2012

The Sad-Eyed Seductress by Carter Brown

One look at her and Danny Boyd knew
A blonde with her kind of eyes
Would be murder!!!

Robert McGinnis Cover

Through the half-open bedroom door Danny Boyd glimpsed a gorgeous pair of legs. One neatly clad in sheer nylon and a high heeled shoe, the other naked and barefoot. He walked in and saw the blonde lying on the bed. She was everything the first tantalizing view had promised. Sultry. Seductive. Scintillating. And they were alone...together. Only one thing was wrong. Now he knew the reason for her one bare leg. Someone had wrapped the missing nylon tight around her pretty throat......

Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1926-1985)

New American Library
Signet Books
S2023 
November 1961

More covers and the original post from April 2011 below.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Operation Flashpoint by Dan J Marlowe

Operation Flashpoint


Drake
He wasn't a good man
He wasn't a bad man
But his name was Earl Drake
And that was the difference

As a bank robber and safe cracker, Drake felt a bit out of place playing undercover agent for Uncle Sam. But he had no choice. One of the top brass in U.S. Intelligence had his number. So they made a deal, his silence for Drake's services in tracking down a gang of Mid-East terrorists. Besides, Drake had a personal in the job. They stole $75,000 from him. Drake started with a Turkish delight, Talia, He conned her into leading him from the bedroom to the inner most sanctum. He wished he didn't. One look at the cold bulbous eyes in the mound of flesh seated on the sofa before him told Drake he had stepped in the path of a rattlesnake. And if he couldn't charm it, Drake was a dead man.

Printing History
Written by Dan J Marlowe (1917-1987)

copyright 1970
Hoddor Fawcett Ltd
Coronet Books
1972, 1973,1973
ISBN 340 16472

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Eye To Eye by Don Pendleton

An Unconventional Hero


Ashton Ford Psychic Detective #2
He's a government trained spy and a former naval officer. A globe hopping adventurer and an unparallelled lover. But Ashton Ford also has special powers. Powers that people sometimes call supernatural, like his ability to see the future. Now both the United States and Russia's most brilliant astronomers and space scientists have mysteriously vanished. The CIA and KGB are frantically searching for answers. Under the shadow of the world's largest telescope, tailed by agents, and with a lovely lady scientist's life in peril. Ashton Ford takes on the most baffling case of his life. One that will offer him glimpses into the world that not even he has ever seen..............

Printing History
Written by Don Pendleton (1927-1995)

Warner Books, Inc
Popular Library
ISBN 445 20252 (USA)
August 1986
ISBN 445 20253 (Canada)
August 1986

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Ace In The Hole by Gene Curry

Saddler #6
Jim joins Butch Cassidy and a camp full of hot women for good times in the badlands!


A hell of a hole in the wall!
Jim Saddler was down on his last buck in a cat-house in Jackson Hole when the infamous Butch Cassidy and his boys stormed in. The outlaws, looking for a reliable gun, pressed Saddler into joining up. Jim was in no position to refuse, especially when Cassidy took him along to the gang's impregnable Hole in the Wall hideout. Once there, Saddler found the good side of an awkward situation. The presence of more than a few unattached women eager for attention. But things go too hot too fast. When he wasn't robbing trains, Saddler had to service his share of outlaw women, including Cassidy's girl, the beautiful Etta Place. Then there was "Mad Dog" Harry Tracy who forced a showdown with Butch for control of the gang. With Jim and his women caught right in the line of fire!

Printing History
Written by Peter McCurtin (1929-1997)

Tower Publications, Inc
Tower Books
ISBN 505 51660
1981

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Killing Ground by David Hagberg

Agent N3 is marked for murder by a top KGB killer!

George Gross Cover
Killmaster #209
Colonel Arkadi Ganin. A man of many identities and one motive. Kill Nick Carter "Killmaster N3". Ganin had been on a lot of assignments in his distinguished career, but none compared to this one. It was the sort of thing he liked most. This time there would be on flabby, unaware politician to kill; no military leader, no general, no diplomat. This time he was going after a much more interesting target. A target that would fight back. Ganin was ready for it. Nick Carter, one on one, to the death........


Print History
Written by David Hagberg

Berkley Publishing Group
Charter Books
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
ISBN 441 57280
January 1986

Trivia
A reoccurring villain makes an appearance.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Merry Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas


Three book titles for your enjoyment.

A Corpse For Xmas
By Carter Brown

Horwitz Edition
A Corpse For Christmas
By Carter Brown

US First Edition

US 2nd Edition

UK Edition
A Body For Christmas 
By Richard Reinsmith


The Christmas Kill
By Joseph L Gilmore


All titles were previously posted in 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Up Your Ante by Glen Chase

The World's Sexiest Crime Fighter Has A New Secret Weapon
Her Bazooka! 
And There Just Ain't No Bazooka Like Cherry's Bazooka

Second Edition
 Scotland Yard asked Uncle Sam for help.
Uncle Sam sent his best agent
Cherry Delight

First Edition
The international crime market was trying to take over London's billion dollar legal gambling casinos. The local cops, even Scotland Yard,  were no match for ruthless bad guys, so they sent for Cherry Delight, the beautiful beat 'em up crime fighter. The odds were stacked against her, but then Cherry is superbly stacked herself. And she got the job done with the help of a load of dynamite and a marked deck.

Australian Edition
N.Y.M.P.H.O (New York Mafia Prosecution and Harassment Organization) is the secret organization dedicated to the wiping out of crime in general and the Mafia in particular. Its most effective executioner is a gorgeous red headed sexpot named Cherry Delight. Cherry is a crackshot and has a black belt in judo. But her most effective weapon is sex. If she can't lick the enemy one way, she'll lick them another way.

Printing History
written by Gardner F Fox (1911-1986)

Cherry Delight #4
Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
LB119ZK (1973)
LB407ZK (1976)

Horwitz Publications Inc
Scripts Publications
Adults Only Series #126 (1974)
ISBN 7252 0316
Printed by Peninsula Press
Hong Kong

Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Riviera Contract by Marvin Albert

A South American death squad is loose in the south of France
And Pete Sawyer stands between them and their prey


She Can Run, But She Can't Hide
Beautiful, feisty Sandrine Tally is a very exclusive and much sought after escort on the French Riviera. But with an unsavory group of international thugs after her, she vanishes. Leaving behind a bullet ridden corpse in her apartment. That's when her best friend asks Pete Sawyer to do the nearly impossible. Bring Sandrine back alive. It's an assignment that will call for even more dirty work than legwork. A deposed South American dictator planning a comeback coup, the ruthless agents of the junta that toppled him, and the French FBI all have a stake in finding the terrified Sandrine. Caught in the middle, Pete is not about to take sides. But the men he's tangling with want blood, and Pete may just live to regret taking them on. If he lives at all............

Printing History
Written by Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996)

copyright 1992 by Marvin Albert

Ballantine Books
Fawcett Gold Medal Books
ISBN 449 14625
January 1993


Thursday, December 20, 2012

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Season 3 Volume 1

Dive To Fantastic Depths And Explore A Hidden Realm


As the SSRN Seaview's ongoing mission continues, her crew boldly defends the free world from the enemies of mankind, battling sinister foreign powers, deadly sea creatures, deranged scientist bent on world domination, and the imminent threat of nuclear doomsday. The brainchild of producer/writer/director Irwin Allen, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was years ahead of its time, reflecting the key social and political issues of its day, and captivating audiences with its unique hybrid of science fiction spectacle and espionage thriller. Step aboard a futuristic atomic submarine, and see what danger lurks just below the surface in this innovative and exciting TV classic!

Features Episodes 59 thru 71 airing from September 18th 1966 to December 11th 1966

Starring 
Richard Baseheart
David Hedison


Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Wheeler, Dealer! by Carter Brown


Double-Dealing With Death!


Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler was looking for a hot tip when he knocked on the private detective's office door. Instead he got a load of burning lead, two cold corpses, and a deliciously undressed dame with an invaluable steno pad in her hand. Since he couldn't get much out of the stiffs, he had to take the doll's cryptic letter and run with the clues. And what a wild gun chase Al led! From voluptuous beauties to business tycoons Wheeler sped, dodging madly between beds and bullets, while making it his business to find out the name of the game everyone was playing. And the word he finally came up with was blackmail. And a bombshell of a scandal big enough to blow Pine City off the map.....


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

copyright Horwitz Publications 
1975

New American Library
Signet Books
in association with Horwitz Publications
ISBN 451 Y6646
August 1975

Trivia
This title is one of several that were not published in Australia