Run, Spy, Run by Michael Avallone & Valerie Moolman

Run, Spy, Run

by Michael Avallone & Valerie Moolman

The orders were simple: Stop "Operation Jet" before the biggest prize in the free world fell prey to it!

Run....from the screaming inferno of a blazing New York airport......to be rescue of a lovely young innocent...from the murderous darkness of a ransacked hotel room...to the welcoming arms of an alluringly mysterious beauty...to the torture room of the sinister Mr Judas, a chamber of horrors beneath the streets of London...to stop the gleaming oversea jet from becoming a huge silver bomb and giving the man with the steel hand a stranglehold on the free word.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999) & Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: February 1964 (A101)

2nd Printing: April 1966 (A101)

3rd Printing: August 1966 (A101)

4th Printing: 1970 (A622)

Universal-Tandem Publishing Co, Ltd

1969, 1970

SBN 426 3930

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965

R908

Thrills Incorporated #3

 Adventures in Space and the World of Tomorrow 

Cover by T Brand

Content

Through Venusian Mists · Ace Carter 

Time’s Permutation · Ron Conway 

Conqueror’s from Below · Rick Harte 

Rogue Robot · Belli Luigi (by G. C. Bleeck 1907-1971)

Printing History

Transport Publishing Company

May 1950

Slaughter In El Salvador by Joseph Rosenberger

Slaughter In El Salvador 

Death Merchant #55

by Joseph Rosenberger

Cover by Dean Cate

Revolutionary Rampage

The tiny Central American nation of El Salvador becomes a seething cauldron of blood as right wing death squads and leftist guerrillas engage in brutal warfare. Civilians die by the thousands and the fragile pro-Western government teeters on the brink of collapse.

The turmoil is an opportunity for Moscow - and a deadly challenge for the Death Merchant. Wanting neither a Moscow stooge or a bloody dictator in power, the US assigns Richard Camellion to terminate the crazed leaders of each extremist faction.

Luck won't be enough, the Death Merchant will need all the firepower he can get - because his mission will put him in the middle of a jungle holocaust.

Printing History

Written by Joseph Rosenberger (1916-1996)

Pinnacle Books, Inc

ISBN 553-41999-6

June 1983

Dr Quake by Warren Murphy

 Destroyer #5

Can Remo Williams save California from a geological disaster?

Cover by Hector Garrido

Forber isn't a mad scientist, he's a tectonic technician with a touch for terror who goes by the name Dr. Quake. California's touchy San Andreas Fault is in danger of being professionally provoked. But it's not Dr. Quake's fault, for someone has split with his earthquake machine. If this dastardly deviant doesn't get a million dollars in cold hard cash he is going to shake down Southern California for a whole lot more. Luckily, shakedowns and natural disasters are just what the doctor ordered for Remo Williams, Korean death master Chiun's trained killing machine, because when it comes to finding weapons of mass destruction, it takes one to find one. After the Destroyer sifts through the blackmail and terror it's the pompous perpetrator who won't be left standing.

Printing History

Written by Richard Sapir (1936-1987)

Warren Murphy (1933-2015)

Pinnacle Books

September 1972

Michael Shayne's Long Chance by Brett Halliday

 Michael Shayne's Long Chance 

by Brett Halliday

Cover by Robert McGinnis

She was a full blown brunette in a bandanna halter that just covered the essentials. The non-essentials were very impressive too. This was just the kind of case Shayne could enjoy. Keeping an eye on a dish like this and getting paid for it to boot.

Cover by Robert McGinnis

A search for a missing girl takes grief-stricken Mike Shayne to New Orleans

It was a knife that brought Mike and Phyllis Shayne together, the murder weapon that Mike had to prove Phyllis did not bury in her mother’s back. But years after they met, fell in love, and got married, Phyllis is dead, and the knife is just another blade. Grieving the loss of his wife, Mike decides he has had enough of Miami, where he and his beloved made a life together, and plans to move to New York and start again. But the South is not through with him yet. As Mike prepares to leave Miami for good, a worried father comes to him, begging him to help find his missing daughter. She is a depressive morphine addict who recently tried to take her own life. When that failed, she fled to New Orleans to throw herself into the arms of the drug. In order to help protect the girl from herself, Shayne musters up the strength to go to the Crescent City, but terrible dangers await him in French Quarter.

Printing History

Written by Davis Dresser (1904-1977)

Dodd, Mead, & Company, Inc 1944

Dell Publishing Company (D416) April 1961

Murder In Shinbone Alley by Helen Reilly

Murder In Shinbone Alley 

by Helen Reilly

Nobody cried at the beautiful model's funeral. 

Too many people had good reasons for wanting her dead

She was beautiful, bored and bound for trouble. She had had too much time on her hands, too much money, a passion for collecting men and no scruples at all about how she got them. Many people hated her, and one of them proved it by shoving her off a 14th floor terrace. The killer had struck in a sudden uncontrollably rage, but now he could see the trail of evidence he had left behind. So began a race between the police, confused by too many suspects, and a murdered who had nothing to lose by killing again.

Printing History

Written by Helen Kieran (1891-1962)

MacFadden

1st Printing June 1964

2nd Printing May 1968

Happy Thanksgiving (2020)

 Happy Thanksgiving (2020)

Blast From The Past (1980)

 Forty Years Ago This Month

Death Mission: Havana

by Ron Felber

Cover by George Gross

Charter Books

October 1980

E is For................................

E is for...............................

The Exotic

by Carter Brown

Horwitz Edition

Signet Edition

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #94 1961

International Edition Series #30 1963

New American Library

Signet Books

#S2009 October 1961

10th Anniversary

Today is the 10th Anniversary of this blog. Thanks for all the visitors and comments that took the time to stop by. Hope to see more of you in the future. Thanks again. The first three books that gave me the idea for this blog. 

Negative In Blue (1973) by Carter Brown (Alan G Yates: 1922-1985)

Chinese Donavan (1976) by Carter Brown (Alan G Yates: 1922-1985)

Pleasure Island by (1981) by Nick Carter (Robert Randisi: 1951- )