The Flash

A police forensic scientist battles crimes as a superfast superhero.

      Starring

John Wesley Shipp (The Flash)

Amanda Pays (Christina 'Tina' McGee)

Alex Désert (Julio Mendez)

Aired
September 20, 1990  to May 18, 1991

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter V: Part 2

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with a few more weeks until the end. We are currently in week 22 with the letter V. 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: V is for The Victim

Barye Philips Cover

    He was less than a grand husband alive and worth more than fifty grand, dead!

 

Three dolls and one corpse.

One was a merry widow with a new lease on life when her husband expired.

One was a luscious skip-tracer whose curves turned up in some unsavory joints.

One was a gorgeous receptionist who snapped to attention when a big girdle manufacturer purred.

as Walk Softly, Witch

as Eve It's Extortion

One or all of them knew whether it was an accident or a murder that converted a footloose husband into a rest-in-concrete corpse. And it's up to Lieutenant Al Wheeler to come up with an answer, fast!

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

 Horwitz Publications Inc.
  As Eve, Its Extortion

Numbered Series #40 May 1957

As Walk Softly Witch!

Numbered  Series #75 March 1959

Long Story Magazine #6 April 1960

International Edition Series #7 September 1961

 New American Library

Signet Books

As The Victim

#1633 March 1959

D2606 1964

Other Various Cover From Around the World

Brazil
Publicado Pela Edicoes De Ouro
1961

Finland
Valpas-Mainos 
1963

France
Gallimard 
1970

France
 Gallimard
1981

Japan
Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book 
1965

Mexico
Diana 
1961

Netherlands
Middernacht 
1962

Notes

 This title was originally posted in April 2011 in a slightly different format. 

Walk Softly, Witch 

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter V: Part I

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with a few more weeks until the end. We are currently in week 22 with the letter V. 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: V is for The Velvet Vixen
(The Vixen)

Grant Roberts Cover

 There had been to many men in her life.
And most of them wanted her dead.
So did two women.

Robert McGinnis Cover

 A real hot number turns a up a cold corpse and Lieutenant Al Wheeler zeroes in on a garment trade racket only to get tagged for murder.

Grant Roberts Cover

  Too many girls can be  too much of a good thing, especially  when the redhead is a liar, the brunette is frigid, and the blonde is dead. So dead that someone had doped, strangled, and killer her just to make sure. Fast-talking, Al Wheeler, tangles with a bedlam of babes, a garment-trade crime king, a malevolent millionaire, and an efficient murderer who deals in death at a discount.

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

Horwitz Publications, Inc.
as The Vixen

Numbered Series #119 (July 1964)

International Edition Series #50 (May 1966)

Bolinda Publishing
2001
Audio Book

New American Library

Signet Books

G2500 June 1964

T5472 1973

Other Covers From Around The World 

Finland
 Valpas-Mainos
1966

France
Gallimard
1965, 1976

Note
This title was originally posted in June 2011 in a slightly different format.
The Vixen 

The Twisted Cross by Mack Maloney

He Is The Last Hope Of A Ravaged America!

Freedom's Challenge

The savage Russian sneak attack that reduce the United States to a nuclear-blackened wasteland is now history. Under the leadership of a fearless jet fighter pilot, the armies of freedom have rescued their besieged nation from the brutal clutches of the Soviet warlords. An awesome gladiator of the skies, he arose from the ashes to revive a forgotten dream called "America". He is Hawk Hunter, WINGMAN! But a terrifying new threat looms near the country's southern border. "The Twisted Cross", a power-hungry neo-Nazi organization, plans to destroy the Panama Canal with nuclear time bombs unless their war chest are filled with stolen Inca gold. The only  route to saving the strategic waterway is from above. As Hunter takes to the air to rain death down upon the Cross' South American jungles stronghold and save the kidnapped daughter of the one man who can end the madness. For if the murderous fanatics are allowed to flourish, the newly reborn U.S. could die in infancy!

Wingman #5

Printing History

written by Brian Kelleher

copyright 1989

Kensington Publishing Corp

Zebra Books

ISBN 8217 2553

2nd Printing November 1989

The New Avengers

The Return Of The Legendary British TV Cult Classic

Starring

Patrick Macnee (1922 - )

as John Steed

Joanna Lumley (1946 - )

as Purdey

Gareth Hunt (1942-2007)

as Mike Gambit

Steed is back...and he's brought two new friends

After debonair British agent John Steed was blasted into orbit with his companion Tara King at the end of "Bizarre" in 1969, the classic British TV show The Avengers finally came to an end after eight years of international success. Patrick MacNee agreed to return and revive the character of Steed. Now past retirement age, and sadly looking it, he really takes the role of the absent Mother, and acts more as a guiding influence than the man at the center of the action. Two younger characters were created in order to maintain the high action content of the show and keep the traditional sexual chemistry between the leads alive. Gareth Hunt was cast as the rugged and handsome Mike Gambit and Joanna Lumley took the role of Purdey. For  Only 26 episodes were made and broadcast in two batches over 1976 and 1977 and then the Avengers really were over for good. 

Series 1 (1976–1977)

Episode #	Original air date (UK)	Episode title	Guest cast
1-01	22 October 1976	"The Eagle's Nest"	Peter Cushing, Derek Farr, Frank Gatliff, Trevor Baxter, Jerold Wells, Sydney Bromley, Peter Porteous
1-02	29 October 1976	"House of Cards"	Peter Jeffrey, Mark Burns, Annette Andre, Jeremy Wilkin, Frank Thornton, Lyndon Brook, Derek Francis, Gordon Sterne, Anthony Bailey
1-03	5 November 1976	"The Last of the Cybernauts?"	Robert Lang, Oscar Quitak, Basil Hoskins, Robert Gillespie, Gwen Taylor, Ray Armstrong, Martin Fisk
1-04	12 November 1976	"The Midas Touch"	John Carson, Ronald Lacey, Ed Devereaux, Pik-Sen Lim, Geoffrey Bateman, Tim Condren, Chris Tranchell, David Swift
1-05	19 November 1976	"Cat Amongst the Pigeons"	Vladek Sheybal, Basil Dignam, Paul Copley, Kevin Stoney, Hugh Walters, Brian Jackson, Gordon Rollings
1-06	26 November 1976	"Target"	Keith Barron, Frederick Jaeger, Robert Beatty, Bruce Purchase, Roy Boyd, Deep Roy, John Paul, Malcolm Stoddard
1-07	3 December 1976	"To Catch a Rat"	Ian Hendry, Barry Jackson, Edward Judd, Dallas Cavell, Jo Kendall
1-08	10 December 1976	"The Tale of the Big Why"	Derek Waring, Jenny Runacre, Roy Marsden, George A. Cooper, Geoffrey Toone, Gary Waldhorn
1-09	17 December 1976	"Faces"	David de Keyser, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Leech, Michael Sheard, Donald Hewlett, Neil Hallett, David Webb, J. G. Devlin
1–10	21 December 1976	"Gnaws"	Julian Holloway, Peter Cellier, Jeremy Young, Patrick Malahide, W. Morgan Sheppard, Keith Marsh
1–11	7 January 1977	"Dirtier by the Dozen"	John Castle, Shaun Curry, Alun Armstrong, Michael Barrington, Brian Croucher, Stephen Moore, John Forbes-Robertson, David Purcell
1–12	14 January 1977	"Sleeper"	Keith Buckley, Sara Kestelman, Prentis Hancock, Mark Jones
1–13	21 January 1977	"Three-Handed Game"	Stephen Greif, Tony Vogel, David Wood, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Annie Lambert, Hugh Morton, John Paul

Series 2 (1977)

Episode #	Original air date (UK)	Episode title	Guest cast
2-01	9 September 1977	"Dead Men Are Dangerous"	Clive Revill, Gabrielle Drake, Trevor Adams, Roger Avon
2-02	16 September 1977	"Angels of Death"	Dinsdale Landen, Terence Alexander, Michael Latimer, Caroline Munro, Pamela Stephenson, Anthony Bailey
2-03	23 September 1977	"Medium Rare"	Jeremy Wilkin, Jon Finch, Neil Hallett, Sue Holderness, Maurice O'Connell
2-04	30 September 1977	"The Lion and the Unicorn"	Maurice Marsac, Gerald Sim
2-05	7 October 1977	"Obsession"	Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins, Tommy Boyle, Roy Purcell
2-06	14 October 1977	"Trap"	Terry Wood, Ferdy Mayne, Robert Rietti, Stuart Damon, Larry Lamb, Bruce Boa, Kristopher Kum
2-07	21 October 1977	"Hostage"	William Franklyn, Simon Oates, Michael Culver, Anna Palk, Richard Ireson, Barry Stanton, George Lane Cooper
2-08	28 October 1977	"K Is for Kill Part One: The Tiger Awakes"	Pierre Vernier, Maurice Marsac, Diana Rigg (archival footage), Kenneth Watson, Tony Then
2-09	4 November 1977	"K Is for Kill Part Two: Tiger by the Tail"	Pierre Vernier, Maurice Marsac, Kenneth Watson, Tony Then
2–10	11 November 1977	"Complex"	Cec Linder, Harvey Atkin
2–11	18 November 1977	"Forward Base"	Jack Creley, Marilyn Lightstone, Maurice Good, David Calderisi
2–12	25 November 1977	"The Gladiators"	Louis Zorich
2–13	17 December 1977	"Emily"	Jane Mallett

Note

"K is for Kill" is titled "The Dragon Awakes"("Der Drache erwacht") in Germany and "The Long Sleep"("Le Long Sommiel") in France.

Blood Raid by Jack Canon

Agent N3 versus a death-for-sale band of super-terrorists 

George Gross Cover

  Killmaster #226 

The One Hundred Eyes. Murderers for hire, terrorists for profit. They claim allegiance to no country. Now these international hit men have set their sights on an entire continent. Nick Carter has seen their kind before, but never on such a grand or ambitious scale. Even the Russians are stymied. And only Agent N3 can cancel their campaign of terror......

Printing History

Written by Jack Canon

Berkley Publishing Group

Charter Books

Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

ISBN 441 57295

June 1987

The Devil To Pay by Glen Chase

The All New Cherry Delight

A Babe In Brittany

Cherry Delight, agent of DU.E., is sent to France to investigate a cult of devil worshipers. Extortionists who murder, rape, and maim for pleasure and profit. The Devil presides over the Black Mass and orgies. But he and his perverted group were in for a surprise, when Cherry came on the scene she would really raise hell. 

Printing History

written by Gardner F Fox (1911-1986)

All New Cherry Delight #1
Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
LB473DK (1977)

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter U

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch. We are currently in week 21 with the letter U. 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: U is for The Unorthodox Corpse

 

Grant Roberts Cover

Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler and a school of sexy coeds play 
hide and seek with a corpse who just won't stay dead

The corpse made his social debut in the finishing schools gym astride a horse. A knife protruded from his back. Then he departs only to reappear later stretched out flat in a padded leather box. When Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler is assigned to cover a ceremony at a local stylist girls school, he walks into the strangest caper of his offbeat career. First a hired magician turns into a corpse before he even can whisk a hat out of a rabbit and then a blonde coed is murdered in front of sixty witnesses. 

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

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Numbered Series #54 December 1957

International Edition Series #11 December 1961

International Edition Series #11 (Reprint) March 1965

New American Library

Signet Books

S1950 July 1961

P4197 1970

Other Covers

Australia

Horwitz Publications, Inc

1957, 1965

Russia

n/d, 2001

Netherlands

Middernacht 

1962

 

Japan

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Series  

1962

 

France

Gallimard

 1957, 1970, 1973

Germany

Ullstein Bucher  

1976

Finland

Valpar-Mainos
1967

Sweden
Wennerberg
1974

United States
New American Library
1970

Robert McGinnis Cover

   Note

This title was published in a slightly different form on  December 22, 2010.

The Unorthodox Corpse

Trivia

The first Russian title looks like Leslie Nielson (1926-2010) on the cover.

Failure To Appear by J.A.Jance

J.P. Beaumont is back

Tracking a trail of broken hearts and shattered dreams

J.P. Beaumont's teenaged daughter Kelly has run off and her tracks have led the sober-but-struggling sleuth to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But in addition to once very headstrong offspring, there is something else waiting for Beau backstage. A case of cold-blooded murder. The victim is an acquaintance, a sleazy rival P.I. brutally butchered, supposedly by the Festival's current young Juliet. Though J.P. has his doubts. But the Second Act is about to open with a second corpse and a touch of kiddie porn. Leaving Beau center stage in a heart stopping tragedy of revenge, deception, and death.

Printing History

Written by Judith Ann Jance (1944- )

William Morrow and Company, Inc
copyright 1993

The Hearst Corporation

Avon Books, Inc

ISBN 380 75839

 September 1994

The Civil War: Blood And Honor

The Glory And The Heartache Of The Battles 

That Changed War Forever

The American Civil War is one of the most studied military conflicts the world over.

Through personal letters, official reports and diaries, viewers will come to understand not only the battle but also the political and personal reasons why our nation took up arms.

3 DVD Set

2006