Thursday, November 29, 2012

West of Jerusalem by Gerard de Villiers

Malko
International Secret Agent Extraordinary

West of Jerusalem


Malko Linge
A very unusual name. A very unusual man, in many ways. A man of royal blood, an aristocrat, if you like, from Austria. Handsome, too, as numerous women will eagerly admit. But quite capable of violence, as few remaining enemies will testify. So what does this dashing new hero do?

He is one of the CIA's most daring and effective special agents. Not a regular employee, mind you, but most assuredly a well-paid specialist. Malko gets the impossible missions, the dirty jobs, the secret operations that demand the coolness of a million-dollar caper, the finality of a commando hit.
In this first adventure we meet Malko as he learns that a top CIA official has leaped to his death from a Washington building. Why? The only clue is a grisly one, a little girl's finger. He has seven days to get the answers. 

Printing History
Written by Gerard de Villiers (1929-)

First published in French by Libririe Plon 1967

Translated from French by Graham Snell

Translation
New English Library 1969

Former title
S.A.S.West Of Jerusalem

Pinnacle Books, Inc.
523-00235 
August 1973

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Marseilles Enforcer by Don Smith

Secret Mission Series #13


"The French Connection" in Marseilles........

The shipment arrived in New York, hidden inside the doors of six cherry red Renaults.  The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the CIA knew the heroin was there. It had been watched from the moment it left the Turkish freighter in Marseilles. But they wee not interested in arresting middle men or small pushers. They wanted the big one behind the scenes, the French connection. They knew he was Antoine Perelli, agent of the Corsican Mafia. What they needed was proof. and getting that was Phil Sherman's job.

Printing History
Written by Don Smith

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp
Universal-Award House Inc
Award Books
AN1041 (1972)

Monday, November 26, 2012

Tool Of The Trade by F.W. Paul

You too can be a wife-swapper while happily unmarried... That is if you're
The Man From S.T.U.D. #5


Bret Steele, the tireless and totally irresistible Man from S.T.U.D. had a new assignment and a new partner. The job: To infiltrate a ring of wife swapping clubs and get the goods on one Very Important Member. The partner: Paradise Jones, the Girl from W.I.L.L.I.N.G., who was gorgeous, stacked, uninhibited, and....well..willing.....

The average bachelor, of course, might encounter some difficulties joining the swappers. But Bret Steel isn't average. All he had to do was whistle, and he had almost more wives than he could handle. None of them legally, but all of them his in any and every other way the human mind can imagine....

There were other problems, naturally. Like a slightly embarrassing corpse to get rid of. Like scaling the walls of a luxury apartment building, clad only in his necktie. But Bret had his reputation to think of. And he came through with flying colors. And a fantastic new score.

Printing History
Written by Paul Warren Fairman (1916-1977)

Lancer Books, Inc
Lancer Books
73-811 (1969)
 

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Love Me To Death by Philip Kirk

Butler takes on a gorgeous killer whose weapon is pleasure!

Butler #5


What A Way To Go
One by one. America's leaders were dying of heart attacks under mysterious circumstances. The only clue linking their deaths was the fact that each had been seen in the company of beautiful, sexy women immediately before his demise. Was it possible that the victims had literally been loved to death? Enter Butler, renegade superspy, the only man with the guts, the brains, and the stamina to destroy the most bizarre conspiracy in the history of the U.S.A.!


Printing History
Written by by Leonard Levinson

Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
ISBN 8439-0712
(January 1980)

Dorchester Publishing Company, Inc
Leisure Books
8439-2079
(June 1984)

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Blood Of The Scimitar by Jack Canon

N3 goes undercover with the jet-set to stop a sheik's assassin!

George Gross Cover
Killmaster #205
When a plot to assassinate Sheik Menbali El Kassier is discovered just before he is to sign a history-making treaty, AXE sends in Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" to bail him out. The mission: Infiltrate Kassier's dazzling entourage and root out a killer so effective he has never been seen. Muamed Quadish, alias, The Fox.Playing the role of a journalist, Nick teams up with a beautiful Israeli operative and enters the decadent world of globe-trotting, bed-hopping, and sudden death.

Print History
Written by Jack Canon

Berkley Publishing Group
Charter Books
Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
ISBN 441 06790
October 1985

Friday, November 23, 2012

Carter Brown Collectors' Series Volume 1 Number 15

Second Collectors' Series
Volume 1 Number 15

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

Contents

A Bullet For My Babe
Numbered Series #1 (September 1955)
Second Collectors' Series Vol 1 #15 (June 1958)

Floozie Out Of Focus
Novelette Series (January 1954)
First Collectors' Series #11 (1955)
Second Collectors' Series Vol 1 #15 (June 1958)

Trivia
Mavis Seidlitz appears as a secondary character in A Bullet For My Babe
The original post from October 2011
Max Tindle is the primary character in Floozie Out Of Focus

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Kill Him Gently by Paul Valdez

Mike Allison thought the bed-ridden man was just another crank until he entered the fear-ridden home and found a cold-blooded plot to.....


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

Published by 
Seabourn Printing and Trading Company
for Transport Publishing Co, Pty Ltd
Wholesale Distributors Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Ltd 
November 1951

Monday, November 19, 2012

The Mistress (UK Edition) by Carter Brown

A stripper stacked for love at a gambling joint where the odds are stacked for murder.


New English Library
Four Square Books
#957 (1963)

Read the original post from February 14, 2011

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Rimrock Raiders by Hamilton Peck

Sporting Western


The sheepherders were just as determined to hold their range as the cattlemen were to wipe them out. And a bunch of hell-raisin' hombres were standin' by in case the fight cooled down, just itchin' to become........

Printing History
Written by Hamilton Peck

Printed by Cresta Printing Co Pty Ltd
Published by Transport Publishing Co Pty Ltd
Wholesale Distributors Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Ltd

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Thrills Incorporated No 20

Adventures in Space and the World of Tomorrow


Contents

Last of the Rocketeers
Written by N.K. Heming
(Norma Kathleen Hemming 1928-1960)
The masters of energy came from beyond the great bubble to destroy the universe.

Maneaters on Mixis
Written by Wolfe Herscholt
The lure of the new stones had the same effect as old-fashioned gold.

Goddess of Space
Written by Alan Yates
(Alan G Yates 1923-1985)
Clayton found that the spaceman who made love to a goddess paid the price.

Published by 
Seabourn Printing and Trading Company
for Transport Publishing Co, Pty Ltd
March 1952