The Silken Nightmare (Revised) by Carter Brown

Midnight, a silken sultry 

siren who sang a song of 

murder as she used sex to 

bait a deadly trap for 

Danny Boyd

Her name was Midnight.

She was dangerous, delicious, just like a dream.

The kind where you wake up screaming.

 

Grant Roberts Cover

 "If you can resist me, you are a free man."

Midnight was as deadly as a black widow with the mating urge. Her raven hair danced over her bare white shoulders as her body twisted and taunted in sinuous invitation. Danny Boyd, toughest private eye in the business, nearly lost the dare. A split second before be belted her in the jaw. The reigning queen of the hoods plans a big crime, and in big time. When she takes Danny prisoner.

Robert McGinnis Cover

 Originally posted on August 21st 2011

The Silken Nightmare by Carter Brown

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Main Series 

#115 January 1964

 

International Edition 

#47 May 1965 

New American Library

Signet Books

G2400 December 1963

T5277 1972

 

Thrills Incorporated #16

Adventures In Space And The World Of Tomorrow

Planet Of Fury

Contents

Planet of Fury

by Ace Carter (G.C. Bleeck 1907-1971)

Death Ray for Roma

by N. K. Heming (Norma Kathleen Hemming 1927-1960)

A Space Ship Is Missing  

by Alan Yates (Alan G Yates 1923-1985)

Printing History

Transport Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd

October 1951

Women Under The Samurai by John Slater

Their Ultimate Task Was To Get The Women Out Of This Island

This Island Of Rape And Torture

Cover by Col Cameron

The Australians knew that the renegade Japs would use every evil torture to make the girls confess. They knew how to get the truth in a crude and brutal way

Every Evil Torture

 would be used to make the nurses divulge the location off the others. The nurses had to be saved from the renegade Japs...

Printing History

Written by Ray Slattery

Horwitz Publications, Inc

#15

1964

Scripts Publications

1971

ISBN 7252 0079

Frame For The Front Page by Marc Brody

Frame For The Front Page 

by Marc Brody

The cops don't like characters who manhandle women in this town

So you'll be in with us or I'll scream..you hear me

All the way up the river!!

When that beautiful dance hostess, Senga Tarpova, called Marc up from the flat she didn't tell him she was sharing it with a dead man neatly packed into a traveling trunk! And when he found out she was tied in with two other guys, and one was found on a bed with his head smashed in and the other was lying dead in a quarry, Marc guessed Senga was being modeled for a frame up. And she was framed, by a guy who had plans for disposing of the guy who had chosen a different frame for her, on a front page, namely, Marc Brody! But Marc was not going to be sent up the river on his own, honey blonde Loren Norris was along for the ride, and brother, was she company! The French countess didn't like the idea of that think of company, she wanted to see Brody a cadaver, first....and did she nearly got her wish, cold!

Printing History

Written by W.H. (Bill) Williams

Horwitz Publications, Inc

September 1957

Thrills Incorporated No 22

Adventures In Space And The World Of Tomorrow

Peril Of The Sea Planet

Contents

Peril Of The Sea Planet

by N.K. Heming (Norma K Hemming 1928-1960)

Stranded on an unknown planet with a wrecked spaceship....Would search parties reach them before the atmosphere took its dreadful toll.

No Pixies On Pluto

by Alan Yates (Alan G Yates 1923-1985)

Ivan Livesy didn't believe in pixies....until he saw one. And from that time on he was a lost man.

Fungus Fantasia

by Ace Carter (Gordon Clive Bleeck 1907-1971)

Three tiny , but dangerous planetoids had to be destroyed..Only two men could do it.

Printing History

Transport Publishing Co. Pty Ltd

Horwitz Publications, Inc

May 1952

 

A Gentleman Called by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

A Mrs Norris Mystery

 

Cover by Victor Kalin

As housekeeper to James Jarvis’s recently deceased father, a retired major general of the US Army, Mrs. Norris has raised Jimmie since boyhood. Now the Wall Street lawyer faces a challenging case. The son of one of the firm’s old blue-blood clients has been slapped with a paternity suit. But Teddy Adkins swears he never slept with the woman.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Norris is miffed when her gentleman friend Jasper Tully, the widowed chief investigator for the Manhattan DA’s office, cancels one dinner date after another because a real estate magnate has been found strangled in the bedroom of her Upper East Side apartment. Jewelry was stolen, but there are no signs of a break-in. Tully’s investigation turns up a trail of strangulations that extends all the way to the Midwest. As Mrs. Norris pursues her own unorthodox investigation, she uncovers a shocking link between the cases that threatens her very life.

Printing History

Written by Dorothy Margaret Salisbury Davis (1916-2014)

Charles Scribners

1958

Dell Publishing Co

2850

September 1962

The Lineup by Frank Kane

Novel based upon the 1954-1960 CBS-TV series of the same name, starring Warner Anderson and Tom Tully

 

Cover by Victor Kalin

  Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Inspector Matt Greb are investigating a robbery that has turned into a double homicide. Dead at the scene, a gambling den in Chinatown, are the operator of the house, killed in a blast of mustard gas, and a patrolman outside, hit by the getaway car. Guthrie and Greb, aided by associates within the department, begin a thorough search for clues. They soon discover the vehicle involved, but the owner and his wife, Sam and Em Walters, claim to know nothing about how it got out of the garage. Meanwhile, Sarge Kurtz convinces the other members of his mini-gang, Mike Newman and Doc Lawrence, that it’s not the time to leave town or lie low. So the robberies continue.

Printing History

Written by Frank Kane (1912-1968)

Dell Publishing Co

B125

April 1959

Get Real by Donald E Westlake

Get Real

 

A reality-show company aptly titled Get Real recruits the delightfully understated John Dortmunder and his merry men for a heist in this clever Dortmunder novel. The producer of the prospective series, Doug Fairkeep, reveals himself to be both cynical and naïve, a combination that makes him an excellent foil for the guys. Naturally, the gang has to make this gig pay more than what's offered, as much for the fun of it as for the extra cash. While Get Real helps them map out a “real” robbery, the boys are mapping out a real robbery—of some of the company's “hidden assets.” The thinking is that Get Real can hardly come after them to retrieve cash that it can't admit that it has. The game plan changes nearly hourly, and the outcome is anything but certain.

Printing History

Written by Donald E Westlake (1933-2008)

Hatchet Book Group

Grand Central Publishing

June 2010

ISBN 446-56663

Two To Tangle by Frank Kane

"I'm  not the the girl you're looking for, Johnny," the brunette purred. "But won't I do?"

Cover by Ron Lesser

It Couldn't Have Happened To A Nicer Girl

...a nicer girl would have kept her mouth shut. This one never learned that sexy brunettes should be seen and not heard, until she sang for the wrong party. By the time Johnny Liddell got to the apartment her recital days were over. Someone had gotten there first. Someone who knew the score and wanted her tune changed permanently, leaving Johnny the key suspect for murder.

Printing History

Written by Frank Kane (1912-1968)

Dell Publishing Company

#9213

February 1965

Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout

Anthology consists of three novellas

Eeny Meeny Murder Mo.
There were several times before when a dead body was found in or around Wolfe's home: one time on the front steps, and another was right in his office. Both times the detective took it as a great personal insult. Imagine his reaction when a dead body not only made a surprise appearance in his office, but his own necktie was used to strangle the victim. Usually Wolfe is fairly impersonal in his investigations, but in this case he gloated at the murderer when he finally nailed him or her. 

Death of a Demon.
A woman became obsessed with shooting her husband.  Her solution? She went to Nero Wolfe and paid him for just listening to her about this with the promise that in case her husband is really shot he would disclose the conversation to the police. His reasoning was she would not want to do it as in this case she would not be able to avoid being caught. There is a really big hole in this logic which Wolfe spotted right away. Later events confirmed his arguments. Wolfe uses interesting psychological play to uncover the culprit. 

Counterfeit for Murder
An old unattractive lady came to Wolfe for consultation. Usually this is not the type of people who need his services considering the fees for said services, but Archie Goodwin decided to teach his boss a lesson and let her in. Before both detectives knew it they had a dead body, a bunch of counterfeit money, pissed off police, and equally pissed off Secret Service (Department of Treasury) on their hands.  

Printing History

Rex Todhunter Stout (1886-1975)

Viking Press, Inc: April 1962

Bantam Books: February 1966

Reissue: August 1993