Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Cold Dark Hours by A.G. Yates

A knife-sharp insight into the powerful clashes of big business.
And the brittle passions of its men and women.


When Electronics Incorporated, the commercial colossus that employed him, pulled Kieth Kirkland back from New York to Sydney, he thought it was trouble. The trouble came in two parts. The television receiver that would not and Jason Sloan, the new boss, who wanted a fall-guy and selected Keith for the job. He was the expert who had to sell the new TV receiver to a disbelieving public. And if it failed, Kieth's head wouldn't be the one to roll. He had a fall guy and there were the distractions along the way. Distractions like Peggy Bush, the blonde secretary in his office. The girl who believed that nothing was too personal for a personal secretary. Particularly when  it helped her career. And then there was the beautiful Lavinia, Jason's wife, who had two loves and neither of them was Jason. Keith thought he had reached the end when he had to chose between career and his best friend./ But the troubles had only started. Troubles that were to end in stark tragedy and sudden death.

Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc. Pty. Ltd.
1958

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Golden Bull by John Stevenson

It was cheap souvenir. 
But its secret was worth millions of dollars. 
And as many lives!

George Gross Cover
A Killing in Gold!

South of the border someone  is trying to torpedo the U.S. economy by shipping enormous quantities of gold onto the black market. Whoever is behind it must be both determined and fabulously wealthy, unless an undisclosed vein has been opened, or a new source of gold discovered. Who is investing this fortune in undermining U.S. stability? And is there more to it than mere economics? Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" is on his way to find out. But first he has to clean up after one assassinated AXE agent. Investigate the stunning socialite Tina Rodriguez, and find the missing David Hawk!

Printing History
Written by John Stevenson

Charter Books
441 29782
June 1981

Monday, November 28, 2011

The Loving And The Dead (UK) by Carter Brown

She played hard and fast with men...money....and murder

Campbell MacCallum Cover
"The next best thing to a man is murder,
but what I really like is a man who's murder"

 Mavis Seidlitz

Printing History

New English Library
Four Square Books
October 1966

Original Post 

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Mission To Siena by James Hadley Chase

Mission To Siena

Beverley LeBarrow Cover
The Deadly Tortoise

For years the world-wide operations of a mysterious and ruthless extortioner who called himself the Tortoise had baffled Scotland Yard and the police forces of Europe. But, slippery though he was, he was no match for the fast-thinking, fast-acting Don Micklem, a wealthy American who got on the Tortoise's trail and tracked him to his lair.....

Printing History

Copyright 1955

Granada Publishing Limited
1966
Reprinted 
1966, 1969, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981
ISBN 586 2049

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Australian Crime Fiction by John Loder

Australian Crime Fiction by John Loder
A Bibliography 1857-1993


One of my many reference books in my library.

Printing History

D W Thorpe
Reed Reference Publishing 
Port Melbourne, Victoria 
Australia

In association with 
National Centre for Australian Studies
Monash university
Clayton, Victoria
Australia

Copyright 1994 
ISBN 1 87889 51 1

Friday, November 25, 2011

The Silencers by Donald Hamilton

The Silencers
Matt Helm #4


Matt Helm returns, he is the undercover agent  with a killer instinct and a weakness for the wrong women.


Matt takes a long journey into the mountains of New Mexico to find, in a battered old church,  one of the most ungodly devices ever conceived for mans destruction.


Columbia Pictures made a movie staring Dean Martin as Matt Helm in 1966


Printing History

Fawcett Gold Medal Books
Copyright 1962

s1194 (February 1962) 
d1641 (June 1966) Movie tie in
T2374 (unkn)
449 14136 (18th printing)

Movie (1966)
Staring 
Dean Martin
Stella Stevens
Victor Buono
Daliah Lavi


Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Amsterdam (Tandem)

Here is a 1973 Tandem Reprint


Amsterdam 
Written by William L Rhodes.

Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd.
ISBN 426 7050 (1973)
Produced by Brodard et Taupin Paris France

Monday, November 21, 2011

The Hang Up Kid by Carter Brown

A sexy freak and a flipped out hippie, Rick Holman's guide on a trip in murder!

Robert McGinnis Cover
Kill a falling star.....
Evan Curran was Hollywood's newest movie idol, financially heeled, emotionally confuse, mentally rocky, and damn sure he would be stone dead within forty eight hours.

Horwitz Edition Photo Cover

Private eye Rick Holman thought his newest client was some kind of psycho on a far out guilt trip. The only trouble with that theory was that there was one corpse already, and far too many people around just praying for Curran to end up with his brains bashed out. Who would have the guts to do it, was something that Rick could only guess..

Signet Photo Cover
Printing History

Horwitz Publications
Numbered Series #151
ISBN 7255 0046 (1970)

New American Library
Signet Books
P4159 (February 1970)
Y7750 (1978)

Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Ouster Conspiracy by David Hagberg

A mole is discovered at the highest level of government.
And all evidence points to AXE!

George Gross Cover
Treason!
When Nick Carter was called into the Oval Office, he knew this would be more than a routine assignment. And when he realizes that David Hawk, Chief of Operations for AXE, was not present at the meeting. And had not been seen anywhere for a week, his mission rapidly became a nightmare! On the track of a traitor, Nick pursues evidence from Brussels to Moscow and back again to Washington D.C., and the very inner sanctum of Intelligence.

Nick Carter's assignment: Get David Hawk!

Printing History
Written by David Hagberg

Charter Books
441-64426
May 1981

Trivia
When the Nick Carter Killmaster series was being produced, The Ouster Conspiracy was consider as a model for anyone wishing to write for the series.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

No Tears From The Widow (Horwitz) by Carter Brown

Script Edition


Copyright by Horwitz Publications Inc, Pty Ltd. 
Numbered Series #135 (1966)
Second Edition (1967)
Scripts Pty Ltd.
Printed Hong Kong by Continental Printing Co, Ltd.