Sunday, November 4, 2012

The Savage Sisters by Carter Brown

"The Group" was a very private club.
But private eye Danny Boyd could join their fun
if he would play their game of sex, dollars, and death....


Orgy of Death
"The Group" was the swingingest bunch of millionaires who ever turned a dishonest dollar. Four business wheeler-dealers and four beautiful babes, playing fast and loose with love, loot, and life. Anyone who thought he could break up this gang had better watch out! Then buxom, blonde Erica Radcliffe decided she wanted out of the club, and hired private eye Danny Boyd to help her find an exit. But "The Group" insisted Danny join their fun instead. And before long, it looked like the only exit Danny could find would be the one all former members took, dark and cold and six feet under!


Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

New American Library 
Signet Books

ISBN 451-Y6871
February 1976
 in association with Horwitz Publications, Inc

ISBN 451-AE2014
w/ The Sometime Wife
January 1983

Horwitz Publications 
Horwitz Group Books Pty, Ltd
Horwitz Grahame Books Pty, Ltd

Double Carter Brown Series
#16A
1982, 1983
w/The Sometime Wife

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Chinese Roulette by Philip Kirk

Someone Had Perfected The Ultimate Weapon.
Butler's Mission:  Search And Destroy!

Butler #4


The Deadliest Missile!
During a routine customs search, vials of Bubonic Plague serum and guided missile components were found on a Chinese junk in Hong Kong harbor. Only Butler could be trusted to ferret out the significance of the deadly cargo. But there were powerful forces at work, whose main objective was to make sure the renegade super-spy didn't live to discover the truth!

Printing History
Written by by Leonard Levinson

Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
ISBN 8439-0691
(November 1979)

Dorchester Publishing Company, Inc
Leisure Books
8439-2068
(January 1984)

Friday, November 2, 2012

The Big Snatch by Rod Gray

For Eve Drum, L.U.S.T. Agent Oh Oh Sex,
it's one climax after another......


Eve Drum on jungle patrol
There's no stopping Eve once she gets onto the Laotian jungle mood. She seems to lose all restraints and throws every inch of her all woman body into dancing in the Bangkok Temple of the Curious Caresses. As usual, the more she takes off, the more she turns on. Eve's L.U.S.T. mission is to capture the plans for a Communist takeover of Thailand. All in the line of duty, Oh Oh Sex teaches her kooky sex tricks to the other temple dancers, dyes her hair brown to pass for native, gets cozy with a Red general and a Buddhist monk, and hunts down a gorgeous rare emerald. it's a lot for any one spy, But Eve thrives on excitement, and comes back for more.

Printing History
Written by Gardner F Fox

First Set
as The Lady From L.U.S.T. #10
Tower Publications, Inc
45-276 1969

Second Set
as The Lady From L.U.S.T. #16
Belmont Tower Books
BT 50710 1974

Scripts Publications
Sydney Australia 
ISBN 7252 0376 1974
Printed by Griffin Press
Netley, South Australia

Thursday, November 1, 2012

It's Getting Harder All The Time by Troy Conway

Counterspy Rod Damon
"The Coxeman" 
risks being loved to death by nine women


Coxeman #5
Can Rod Damon Satisfy A Harem?
To ferret out the location of a hidden atomic installation, the Coxeman volunteers to make love to a harem ruled by a sexually abnormal, power-mad African dictator. The harem consists of nine gorgeous scientists, each more insatiable and erotically inventive than the other. When they are not working on Rod, they are working on perfecting the hydrogen bomb that the dictator will detonate if the great powers do not succumb to his wishes. Nigh after night, the great Rod tries to discover the secret place only these love-starved women know. But how long can he go from orgy to orgy before he and the whole free world go down in flames!

Printing History
Written by Michael Avallone
(1924-1999)

Warner Paperback Library
Warner Books, Inc

First Printing 
July 1968
53-725
Paperback Library, Inc

Second Printing
February 1970

Third Printing
December 1972
65-995
Warner Paperback Library, Inc

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Blue Limbo by Frank Lauria

The remarkable return of Dr. Owen Orient, Psychic Investigator
Technology and supernatural evil are wed
on an island of voodoo terror

Cover by Alan Chang

Evil Reigns From Washington To Montego Bay

Beneath the cool blue waters of the Caribbean, a telepathic experiment aboard an American nuclear submarine goes hideously awry....

A beautiful and gifted Obeah priestess is trapped between the unspeakable hells of the living and the living death......

A power-crazed government official joins forces with a fiendish and invincible voodoo master in an unholy alliance of military might and supernatural terror that could devastate the Earth.....

Scientist, Psychic Investigator, High Adept of Mystical Arts
For over a decade, the insidious forces of occult evil have been allowed to flourish and feed.

But now Dr Owen Orient has returned

Printing History
Written by Frank Lauria

Avon Books 
The Hearst Corporation
ISBN 380 76164
May 1991

Friday, October 26, 2012

The Normandy Code by Jack Canon

Inside a plaster statue are computer secrets that could blow Europe apart!

George Gross Cover
Killmaster #202
Nick Carter has been a croupier in a Deauvillle casino on the Normandy coast for two weeks. The reason? To gain access to the French underworld and find out who pulled the Paris heist of a plaster Madonna containing the computer codes of all the Pershing missiles in Western Europe. All Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" has to go on is a matchbook from the casino and a woman's handkerchief. It's a race against time....before the Madonna falls into the wrong hands!

Printing History
Written by Jack Canon

Berkley Publishing Group
Charter Books
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
ISBN 441 58612
July 1985

Trivia
Serena makes an appearance. She first appeared in The Ebony Cross
The Ebony Cross 

Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Murderer Among Us! by Carter Brown

She was a movie queen with all the qualities to make her infinitely desirable to countless millions of men the world over. But she was jealous of the blonde who stole her part, jealous enough to make wild threats of murder. And Hollywood's Mr. Fix-It Rick Holman had to stave off the scandal when someone proceeded to carry out her threats......


Three attempts had been made to murder the blonde actress. It was enough to make a phoney publicity story, with the would-be victim's beautiful rival as the killer line. And when  Hollywood's tough trouble-shooter Rick Holman was hired to straighten out the scandal, he found himself caught up in a deadly conspiracy.

Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc. Pty. Ltd.
Numbered Series #104 (1962)
International Edition Series #55 (1968)

This title was published in the United States as A Murderer Among Us! check out the link below for that post from May 2011.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Hot As A Pistol by Gene Curry

Saddler was named temporary marshal, 
but he was a full-time lover


Frontier Justice
On his way south to Mexico, Jim Saddler met an old friend who needed help in the Arizona Territory. The next thing he knew he was marshal of a dying town. Hated and distrusted by the townspeople, Saddler thought he would have to work all day long to keep the town safe from a renegade Irish family and a corrupt politician, and all night long to keep himself safe from a pair of criminally beautiful women. Soon he found his troubles had only begun. For one of the beauties had run away from her murderous husband Peyton Ballard. An infamous Confederate guerrilla, Ballard meant to kill anyone who tried to stand between him and his wife. But Saddler had sworn to protect the innocent, and he would, no matter how many outlaws he had to gun down.

Printing History
Written by Peter McCurtin

Belmont Tower Books
Tower Publications Inc. 
(1980)

Leisure Books
Dorchester Publishing Company
ISBN 8439-3037 (December 1990)

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Without Due Process by J. A. Jance

We are nearing the end of the Crime Fiction Alphabet Meme over at Kerrie's
Mysteries in Paradise 

This week I will be featuring the title Without Due Process by J.A. Jance

A J.P. Beaumont Mystery
A maniac broke into the home of Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston, then brutally snuffed the model cop, his wife, and his children. But five year old, "Junior" Weston was hiding in a closet. And somehow avoided the psycho's bloody blade. Everyone loved and admired "Gentle Ben: but now the brass is suggesting he was dirty. Homicide detective J. P. Beaumont isn't about to let anyone drag his dead friend's reputation through the mud. And he'll trail a killer from the savage, gang-related streets into the upper ranks of Seattle P.D., if necessary to save a scared little boy who knows too much to live.

Printing History
Written by Judith Ann Jance

William Morrow and Company, Inc
 ISBN 688 11459
December 1992

The Hearst Corporation
Avon Books
ISBN 380 75837
October 1983



Harper Collins
ISBN 062 08638
January 2012

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Die Anytime, After Tuesday! (Horwitz Edition) by Carter Brown

Maybe the threat on the comedian's life was only a joke.
But who wants to give a murderer the last laugh?


Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications
Horwitz Group Books Pty. Ltd.
Numbered Series #147 (1969)
Issued March 1970

Read the original post from November 2011