Mission To Venice by Manning Lee Stokes

Mission to Venice

by Manning Lee Stokes

Somewhere in the Adriatic, a missing H bomb triggers a game of global blackmail that Killmaster alone must win

The US has lost an H-bomb over the Adriatic. This bomb was a lure for a game of global blackmail with the lives of thousands as well as the United States prestige. Everything is riding on Nick's mission to Venice, he has no help but a notorious courtesan. Vanni Manfrinto, the head of Yugoslavian Intelligence, is a hunted man. But a lady of beauty and morals of Princess de Verizone could be allowed satisfy the insatiable lust of Vanni. There was more to lust for Manfrinto, as Nick would discover in one encounter to another. Nothing in Nick's training could he be prepared for the brutal carnage he was forced to inflict in order to prevent the bomb from falling into the wrong hands.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A228X) 1967

2nd Printing (A632X) 1970

Tandem Books

1st Printing (4260-2671) 1970

Injustice For All by J.A. Jance

Injustice For All

by J.A. Jance

A dead man, a luscious lady, and a homicide cop have one thing in common...murder!

Vengeance Is Mine

J.P. Beaumont is on vacation in the San Juan Islands with Anne Corley still on his mind. He is sleeping in his hotel room by the shore when he hears a woman screaming. He is spurred out to help her drag a man's body from the cold water. He is dead. He was her friend and co-worker. Ginger Watkins and the dead man, Sig Larson, both worked for the Washington State Parole Board. J.P. helps Ginger back to his room to warm her up while they wait for the police. He learns that she is the wife of a prominent political figure running for re-election in Washington. She wants to divorce her husband, and the dead man had been her supportive friend. They had been threatened by a man whose wife and daughter had been killed by a convict they had allowed out on parole. The man, Don Wilson, is now fighting to change the system to gain assistance for victims and reformation in the Parole Board. He didn't want what happened to his family to happen to someone else. He also threatened that Watkins and her friend would "pay." The police now start looking for Wilson. Beau finds himself working to protect the Parole Board. As a cop, he and the Board rarely see eye-to eye. But something is going on. As more people related to the Board die, and he is framed for one of the deaths, he knows he has to discover the truth. Is that the connection, or is there another angle?

Printing History

Written by Judith Ann Jance

Avon Books

ISBN 380 896417

May 1986

Stop Press In Scarlet by Marc Brody

Stop Press In Scarlet

by Marc Brody

This frame led to hunting in the hills with rifle sights set for murder and all eyes on Brody.....

He was mean, vicious, the type who would sell out his father for a dime, if the old man had been worth that much! He was mobster Alby Varner, he and Marc Brody were working to finger the killer of lovely Nita Young. The magnet that lured Body and Varner together was the search for the missing million dollar art treasure. Marc's assignment was to find the treasure and double cross Varner, he had his own plans as well. Avoid being double crossed by Brody and pin the rap on the person who murdered Nita. So Brody headed up to the mountains for some big game shooting, hillbillies who brewed a special brew, beautiful women, ,and an influx of machinegun toting hoods. But somebody forgot to tell him that behind the mystery of the missing art treasure was yet another mystery! But those machine guns were right on target and Brody was their target....

Printing History

Written by W.H. "Bill" Williams

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #4

November 1958

The Bright Blue Death by Nicholas Browne

The Bright Blue Death

by Nicholas Browne

Nick's tracking the source of an epidemic...of revenge!

George Gross Cover

They called themselves the Teutonic Knights, and they were neo-Nazis thirsting for revenge of the Fatherland. A half-mad genius was leading them with dreams of ruling the world. He has the means to destroy if if any one dared to resist. The first steps had already been taken. Carefully selected victims were dying from a mysterious painful disease. Each one vital to their countries survival. It was Nick Carter's job to destroy the madness. His success was riding on two sultry and sensuous women. One was scornful and a headstrong Swede who was supposed to be Nick's partner. The other was a treacherous amoral American who was his enemy.

The dwarf laughed, his body shaking with glee. He liked to see beautiful women tortured.

The giant with the mind of a child stared. He did not understand the terrible scene before him.

The girl was bored, her face betrayed no emotion. She had seen the scares and heard the screams too often.

The count was seething with rage. He was going to prolong the agony for a long time.

The setting was in a vast meeting hall of the Teutonic Knights. Before them on a table, lay a lovely blonde woman. Her eyes had fear in them. From head to her heart wires ran to a small control panel next to the count. The count turned to the big American at his side and said "Your next, Nick Carter."

Printing History

Written by Nicholas Browne

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A277X) November 1967

2nd Printing (A277X) 1968

Tandem Books

1st printing (T172) 1967

2nd Printing (426-12570-3) 1973

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 08015-4

August 1979

Mantrap by Duane Yarnell

Mantrap

by Duane Yarnell

She was free and she was easy...but she was...murder!

Danger Red Head 2 miles

Is what the road sign should have said. But Mark Fletcher wouldn't cared anyway. For a city slicker he had very primitive ideas about women. Except that he hadn't bargained for Rusty. She had flaming hair, eyes the color of fresh minted greenbacks and a skin tight sweater that left no room for doubt. The only thing she liked better than a man was two men. She never took money from a guy if she could steal it first. And in a seamy shore town like Inlet city a dame like Rusty was live bait …for murder!

Printing History

Written by Duane Yarnell (1914-1996)

Fawcett World Library

Crest Books

November 1957 (#192)

January 1960 (#346)

The Decoy by Edward Ronns

The Decoy

by Edward Ronns

Death's Bait Was Beautiful

Baryé Phillips cover

Many a man has been led to heaven by a woman, or trapped into hell. Ben Sherman was one of these men. Phoebe Dunham was one of these women. Whether Phoebe was bait or beauty Ben Sherman had to know. With crooks and grafters at his throat, he risked his life for the right answer.

Printing History

Written by Edward Sidney Aarons (1916 - 1975)

Fawcett Publications, Inc

Gold Medal Books

1st Printing October 1951 (#194)

2nd Printing October 1955 (#529)

3rd Printing 1967 (T1755)

4th Printing 1969 (R2114)

5th Printing 1972 (T2588)

Maid for The Morgue by Marc Brody

Maid For The Morgue

by Marc Brody

When Donna Bryson, who had not always been a maid, began her dynamic career in the world of high tension politics and crime, men died violently and the lives pf others hung by a thread. But Donna hadn't figured that the complication of jealousy and greed would book her a seat on a one way ride to the morgue. Marc Brody's search for the truth about who knocked off high note union men, Paddy O'Brien and Ricky Ferrari, just before election time, led him into the box seat on Donna' morgue bound journey. Brody met up with guys like suave Joe Sanger, Senators Orrell, whose ambitions were not all political. Eddy Meech, a natural killer. And dames? Yvonne Polvani, deadly exciting. Rina Elkton, who was everything a guy wanted in a dame if he liked it on a grand scale...Rina smoked cigars, loved champagne and every day was her birthday..

Printing History

Written by W.H. "Bill" Williams

Horwitz Publications

September 1956

Assignment: Israel by Manning Lee Stokes

Assignment: Israel

by Manning Lee Stokes

A Deranged Nazi Killer Out to Destroy the Mideast

He was known as "The Butcher" and he was a former Hitler henchman who was responsible for more murders than any other man alive. Depraved in mind and body, he hungered for men and women with the same insatiable appetite. He was hunted as a war criminal by the Israelis and he lusted for the chance to massacre his enemies. 

A captured Communist document gave the United States the whole story. But finding "The Butcher" and stopping him were something else. Plastic surgery made the first half of the problem impossible while the Arabs' hatred of the Jews choked off the second half. 

The United States was banking on Nick Carter and it supplied him with the most tantalizing helper, a beautiful Israeli agent named Sabra. Sabra had the body of a goddess and the heart of an efficient killing machine. For "The Butcher" a Middle-East holocaust would be a personal victory, but the rest of the world it held a greater meaning. For the Chinese had already started the world towards WW III.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A260X) 1967

2nd Printing (A260X) 1968

3rd Printing (A635) 1970

4th Printing (A939S) 1972

5th Printing (AN1218) 1973

Tandem Books

1st printing (T154) 1967

2nd Printing (85106-12554-1) 1973

The Filthy Five by Manning Lee Stokes

The Filthy Five

by Manning Lee Stokes

Killmaster uncovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States

A life worth a billion dollars in Chinese gold!

American intelligence had intercepted the message. The Red Chinese were paying one billion dollars to have the US President killed. The money was used to create a super weapon out of five convicted murderers. But the US could not act without proof. This was a mission for only one person, Nick Carter, Killmaster. The nation waited in horror as Nick battled the insurmountable odds. Tortured and a young lady was killed as to avert failure. The assassination plot had to be stopped at all costs, the clock was running out fast.

Four people stood in the way

Dona Lanzos: She was filled with hate for the men who killed her lover. She was more than wiling to use her body as a weapon or revenge.

Harry Crabtree: He hated mankind. He was a sadistic hired killer who got a sickening, terrible kick out of his job.

Malcolm Drake: He could not stop hating his crippled and useless body. Having life and death power over others help to ease the pain. He would torture, betray, and murder for power.

Ramon Ramirez: He was a skilled expert at his work. His work was killing, and Nick was to be his victim.

Printing History

Written by Manning lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A276X) November 1967

2nd Printing (A276X) April 1969

3rd Printing (AQ1415) February 1975

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 23765-7

1978

Tandem Books

1st printing (T171) 1967

2nd Printing (426-6461-35) 1972

Seven Against Greece by Nicholas Browne

Seven Against Greece

by Nicholas Browne

Nick Carter on a blood-soaked mission against one of the worlds most vicious terrorist gang.

The world teetered on the edge of destruction because of seven people against Greece.

The greedy Greek millionaire Papadoru, his fortune was based on betraying his country to the highest bidder.

The evil Chinese agent, General Lin Te-peng, who ran Europe's master spy school.

The revolutionary madman, Gorgas, he lived only fir the pain he could inflict on helpless women.

The beautiful Princess Electra, she as a a man eating tigress who them the gang to their terrifying goals.

There was also an English soldier of fortune, a huge Greek thug, and the man they call "The Black Monk."

The goal was world domination, they were driven by lust for power and to overthrow governments in the Balkans. There were attempts to stop them. The bullet riddled body of an AXE agent was the end of one try. Now there was a more lethal agent, Nick Carter, but he was unprepared for the death trap set by the perfumed beautiful woman.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Nicholas Browne

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A247X) September 1967

2nd Printing (A633X) February 1970

3rd Printing (AN1096) September 1972

4th Printing (AN1096) November 1973

5th Printing (AQ1393) December 1974

Tandem Books

1st printing (T141) 1967

2nd Printing (426-12634-3) 1973