Back In The Real World by Marvin Albert

Back In The Real World

by Marvin Albert

Starring Pete Sawyer in a stylish mystery of high fashion and the lowest of crimes....

When Pete drops by his friend Frank Crowley's house one evening, neither Crowley nor his wife Nathalie is home. instead, he finds two dead bodies, and he recognizes them both. One is a rival private eye. The other is Nathalie's gorgeous sister in-law, Anna-Marie. Both naked with bullet holes in their heads. Where the two having an affair? Is there a connection between the two murders and the recent goings on at the prestigious couture house where Ann-Marie was a star designer? Pete must keeps his wits about him and his gun in hand to solve this stylish mystery and keep his friend Crowley out of jail.

Printing History

Written by Marvin Albert (1924-1996)

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

449 12917

December 1986

Carnival For Killing by Jon Messman

Carnival For Killing

by Jon Messman

Fidel Castro's monstrous plan, murder on a mass scale!

George Gross Cover

At Midnight, February 14th....In the black wilderness of Brazil's vast Mountains of the Sea, a man waited patiently for an execution. Within minutes he would kill the unsuspecting American who thought him  a trusted ally.

At Midnight, February 14th....On a rain splattered superhighway leading to NYC, a blond youth stared into the headlights of an onrushing car. In all the world only the boy could give warning of the impending holocaust that would end untold lives.

At Midnight, February 14th....In a luxurious bedroom on Manhattan's posh East Side, a beautiful girl watched as Nick Carter take off his clothes. she was already ready in bed, waiting, and smiling.

Neither of them knew they were about to begin Phase One of a fantastic espionage plot devised by Fidel Castro's master spy.

Nick Carter hurries to Rio to assist industrialist Todd Denison, whose life has been threatened. But before Nick can arrive, Todd turns up dead. The death appears accidental, until Nick proves it was murder. A search for the killers involves Nick, Todd's pretty widow, and his secretary Maria Hawes. Maria informs Nick that Todd had many enemies who were trying to prevent his building a new plant in the mountains that would raise wages and living standards for the local population. When Nick is attacked, extremist leader Rojadas is implicated. Is Rojadas a friend or foe? Is he behind the planned mass murders. The assassinations were timed to occur during the Carnival in Rio. Thousands would die in minutes.

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman (1920-2004)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st (A406X) 1969

2nd (A644X) 1970

3rd (A938S) 1972

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441-09173-3 Oct 1981

UK Printings

Tandem Books

1st Printing (3658) 1969

Reprint (426 7018) 1973

14 Seconds To Hell by Jon Messman

14 Seconds to Hell

by Jon Messman

The deranged master of Peking's death factory plots to destroy both the U.S. and Russia...on voice command...…..Only one man can stop him!

Mort Kunstler cover

The death factory was somewhere in a carefully hidden corner of China. It sheltered Peking's gigantic nuclear arsenal. Its master was a crazed genius whose hatred was fanned by an amoral, corrupt, breathtakingly beautiful woman. He rigged the bombs to explode on voice command. The targets were the United States and Russia. Nick Carter's mission was direct and impossible. Penetrate the core of Red China and destroy the site. He also had to betray the two agents without whom he could not complete the assignment. The sensual blonde twins sent by the KGB to help Nick. Leave them behind to die in withering agony.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman (1920-2004)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A376X) November 1968

2nd Printing (A637X) September 1970

3rd Printing (A927S) January 1972

4th Printing (AQ1448) April 1975

UK Printings

Tandem Books

1st Printing (3578) 1968

Reprint 1971

Reprint (5944) June 1972

The Defector by George Snyder

The Defector

by George Snyder

Nick Carter must obey the whims of a beautiful, sadistic enemy spy to stop the traitor who could blow the U.S. sky high!

The theft of the deadly formula.

The school for Red spies.

The army of man eating rats.

The exotic house of pleasure.

The diamond dagger caked with blood.

The hidden pellet of cyanide.

All of them played a vital part of Nick Carter's latest assignment. Prevent a top American scientist from defecting to China. Nick had only one lead, a beautiful women with a special fondness for sex spiced with savagery. 

The scene was Hong Kong. 

The mission was to find Professor Loo, whose scientific knowledge could give the Red Chinese protection against any nuclear attack. Nick battles strange enemies, the threatening Chin Ossa and the beautiful Sheila Kwan.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by George Snyder 

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A405X) 1969

2nd Printing (A643X) 1970

3rd Printing (A925S) 1972

4th Printing AN1264) 1974

UK Printings

Tandem Books

1st Printing (3631) 1969

Reprint (5469) 1971

Reprint (5469) March 1972

Reprint (426 17398) 1977

Star Books

1st Printing (352 30483) 1979

Reprint (352 30483) 1981

Baby, You're Guilt-Edged by Carter Brown

Baby, You're Guilt-Edged

by Carter Brown

There were two of them in the police car and one look at the accident was enough. The guy who had been driving needed a preacher, not an ambulance. A routine assignment for a cop, or so Dave Gault thought, but the cop who had been in the police car with him ended up dead that night. A week later, he ended up in the pen with a two to five stretch which showed Dave was a cop with different ambitions anyway. Then his wife disappeared and he figured the pen could get along without him. That was when Dave met Lorraine, the girl who fixed the bullet hole in his shoulder amongst other things. The rest of the problem was simple, all he had to do was find out how he was framed and who did it. And find out why that envelope was worth as much as it seemed to be. Didn't he mention the envelope? That was what started the whole trouble...…

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #19 July 1956

Second Collectors' Series Volume 1 #22 (February 1959)

w/Pagan Perilous

Murder Paris Fashion by Carter Brown

Murder Paris Fashion

by Carter Brown

First Edition

Cover by Bernard Blackburn

Second Edition

Third Edition

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Novel Series 1954

Second Collectors' Series Vol 1 #1 1957

w/My Mermaid Murmurs Murder

Second Collectors' Series Vol 2 #7 1960

w/The Lady Is A Killer

No Body She Knows by Carter Brown

No Body She Knows

By Carter Brown

Her drive landed this babe way off course....

with a guy who wanted her to tee up for murder...

Bert Butler saw the body the first time, then he saw her again, the third time she was gone, …and the fourth time? The fourth time she fell out of his wardrobe. The headlines read "Juicy Murder" An ordinary bullet in the head. The picture in the paper was none other than Mr Butler with the caption "Killer At Large" Butler was employed by the soft drink company "Juicy" to promote a golf tournament, clean and wholesome fun until the blonde teed off and her caddy went off to find the ball in the rough. Boy did he scream, he found a corpse on links a nice neat hole in his forehead.

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #58 1958

Second Collectors' Series Vol 2 #5 1960

w/Slaughter In Satin

Last Note For A Lovely by Carter Brown

Last Note For A Lovely

by Carter Brown

She was a thrush with a throaty voice..

Sing baby sing!

I've got to face unless you tell me how this dame died...twice!

Carl Vesper, jazz critic of the magazine Offbeat, stumbles across her body and later she makes an appearance on stage. So who is more surprised, her murdered or Carl? Then Carl gets news from the Police that Toots Yabach was killed in a car accident. Carl had his hands full with a corpse that was killed twice.

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #49 1957

Reprinted By Demand #14 1959 

The Frame Is Beautiful by Carter Brown

The Frame Is Beautiful

by Carter Brown

She went to a high class beauty salon where the treatment was murder!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Novel Series (no numbers) 1954

Second Collectors Series Vol 1 no 7 October 1957

Reprint By Demand Series #30 October 1960

Temple of Fear by Manning Lee Stokes

Temple Of Fear

by Manning Lee Stokes

Lost: America's top agent on a bizarre assassination assignment.

Found: Fragments of an incredible espionage plot. Targets-United States and Red China.

Reward: The world in flames or peace, depending on who won.

Somewhere in Tokyo's espionage jungle a shocking double cross warned that the plot was underway. America's super secret espionage network, AXE, moved to assign its top operative, Nick Carter to Japan. 

But Nick disappeared. Drugged and kidnapped by the oldest ploy in the book. A beautiful women with a body built for betrayal. And for the first time, Nick finds himself helpless, weaponless, alone, and trapped into helping the enemy. Nick assumes the identity of a man long dead as he hunts for a lovely but lethal double agent through the neon wilderness of Tokyo's Ginza. He matches wits and bullets with the strangest enemy, knowing that one false move could mean a world in flames.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A367X) Oct 1968

2nd Printing (A629X) Oct 1970

3rd Printing (AQ 1440) March 1975

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 80215 X 1978

UK Printings

1st Tandem (?) 1968

Tandem Reprint (426 5805) 1971

Tandem Reprint (426 5805) March 1972