Thrills Incorporated No 23

Adventures In Space And The World Of Tomorrow

Rocketeers At Bay

Contents

Transport Publishing Company

June 1952

Rocketeers At Bay

Written by N K Heming

(Norma Kathleen Hemming 1928-1960)  

Our future....told by a robot

Radio Riddle

Written by Wolfe Herscholt

Try to guess the answer..die if you don't

Juggernaut Of Jago

Written by Ace Carter

(Gordon Clive Bleeck 1907-1971)

If the monstrosity could be turned against the monster who invented it

 

Madness In Mercury

Written by G. C Bleeck

(Gordon Clive Bleeck 1907-1971)

For no reason at all, the Mercurians made vicious attacks on Earthmen...madness

Spaceman Spoofed

Written by Alan Yates

(Alan G Yates 1923-1985)

If the floating box makes you wonder what's cooking, then it's your own goose!

2014 USA Fiction Challenge: Delaware

Welcome back to the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge. Last time we left off with the District of Columbia.  So the next stop is our second state of Delaware.

Presenting 

She'll Never Know

by Hunter Morgan

Afraid To Forget

Terrified To Remember

What You Can't Remember Can Kill You

A victim of amnesia, Jillian Deere only knows that she was left by an unidentified man at a North Carolina hospital with a gunshot wound to her neck. But she has the strangest feeling she belongs elsewhere. Something is drawing her to the small Delaware town of Albany Beach - a town caught in the grip of a seemingly unstoppable serial killer. The victims have all been blonde and blue-eyed, just like Jillian. One by one, they've disappeared from the beach town's quiet cottages and wind-swept streets, only to be found horribly murdered. Jillian can't imagine why she remembers Albany Beach or what it means. The only person she can turn to for help is lifeguard Ty Addison. Despite the almost ten-year difference in their ages, Jillian finds herself falling for his beach-bum good looks. And then the first memory flashes to horrifying life. Haunted by her tragic past, unsure of whom to trust, Jillian is desperate to uncover the truth about her identity before it's too late. For someone is watching Jillian from out there in the dark. Someone who knows exactly who she is...his next victim.

Printing History

Written by Hunter Morgan

Zebra Books

August  2004

ISBN 821 77685

Murder in March Madness Day #31

Welcome to the last of the Murder in March Madness event This is the event where I will highlight a title with the word "murder", or a variant, in it. To cap off this event will be the very first Cater Brown "Lovely Mystery" The Lady Is Murder from 1951. Thanks to everyone for visiting.

The Lady Is Murder (1951)

Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

 

Publishing History

Transport Publishing Company
for and on behalf of Horwitz Publications, Inc
1951, August 1954

w/Madame, You're Morgue Bound and Cyanide Sweetie

First Collectors Series No 5
1955

Title changes to The Lady Is A Killer in 1958

w/Murder By Miss Take 

Second Collectors Series Vol 1 No 18

Murder In March Madness Day 30

Welcome back to Murder In March Madness. We are currently almost finished with the event where I feature a title with the word "murder" in it or a variant. We have two days left with Day #30. Today's title is Ada Madison's The Square Root Of Murder from 2011.

The Square Root Of Murder (2011)

Written by Camille Minichino 

Dr. Sophie Knowles teaches math at Henley College in Massachusetts, but when a colleague turns up dead, it's up to her to find the killer before someone else gets subtracted.

Dr. Sophie Knowles is a forty something math professor teaching summer session at a small Cape Cod women's college. Her close-knit academic community is suffering through a sweltering summer heat wave when, out of the blue, a much-despised chemistry professor is poisoned in his lab. Wanting to help the graduate student who's been fingered as the killer, Dr. Knowles begins her amateur investigation. Along the way, she learns about the darker side of academia. The ensemble cast includes the requisite wacky best friend (who owns a bead shop) and the action boyfriend (an emergency medical responder).

Printing History

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Berkley Books

July 2011

ISBN 425 24219

Wheeling Publishing

February 2012

ISBN 978 1410443939

Murder In March Madness Day 29

Welcome back to Murder In March Madness. We are fast approaching the end of this event where I highlight a title with the word "murder" or variant in it. There are just three days remaining. Today's title is the 1934 title The Murder Of My Aunt by Richard Hull

The Murder Of My Aunt (1934)

Written by Robert Henry Sampson (1896-973)

Edward is a poor young man who has something in store for his only relative, his wealthy aunt.

The murder seems to be plotted before the reader's eyes. The pompous, loutish pseudo-aesthetic nephew seems to be succeeding. The reader is in on it all. The suspense becomes intense.

 

Printing History

 Minton, Balch & Company 

1935

Langtail Press Limited

2011 

Murder In March Madness Day 28

Welcome back to Murder In March Madness. We are nearing the end of this event where I highlight a title with the word "murder" or a variant in it. We are currently up to day 28 with a few days left. Today's title is Honeymoon With Murder by Carolyn Hart from 1988.

Honeymoon with Murder (1988)
Written by Carolyn G Hart (1936- )

 

Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance's investigative nature puts her marriage to detective Max Darling on ice, when a chilling murder occurs after their wedding ceremony.

 

 The murder of sleazy/disreputable Jesse Penrick interrupts Annie and Max Darling's honeymoon when Annie's friend, desperate for assistance, phones her. The friend's subsequent disappearance galvanizes the island of Broward's Rock precipitates the involvement of a gaggle of sleuths

Printing History

copyright 1988

Murder In March Madness Day #27

Welcome to Murder In March Madness. Where I highlight a title with the word "murder" or a variant in it. Currently we are in the home stretch with just four days remaining. Today's title is The Third Murderer by Carroll John Daly, from 1931.

The Third Murderer (1931)

Carroll John Daly (1889-198)

The Devil is unchained!

This simple messages sends Race Williams into his most complex and exciting case of his career. The Gorgon crime family is ruling the streets and courts of New York and Race's unknown client is orchestrating the showdown which will hopefully bring the Gorgons down. As the message unleashes a whirlwind of activity, the hidden, dark secrets of two families are uncovered. 

1931 Farrar & Rinehart Edition

1932 Hutchinson Edition

Murder In March Madness Day 26

Welcome to Murder In March Madness. Where I highlight a title with the word "murder" or a variant in it. Currently we are in the home stretch with just five days remaining. Today's title is The Murder Room by P. D. James.

The Murder Room (2003)

Written by Phyllis Dorothy James (1920- )

P. D. James's detective, Commander Adam Dalgliesh, returns to find himself in a terrifying story of passion and mystery, and in love.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne, a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of the fellow trustees and the Dupayne's devoted staff. It seams everyone has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the murderer has been inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room and is preparing to kill again. Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer

Printing History

Alfred A. Knopf

November 2003

ISBN 978-1400041411

Murder In March Madness Day 25.

Welcome to Murder In March Madness. Currently we are in the home stretch with just six days remaining. Today's title is the Carter Brown's Murder by Miss Demeanor from 1956.

Murder By Miss Demeanor (1956)

aka Murder By Miss Take (1958)

Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985) 

Horwitz Numbered Series #12
1956

Horwitz Collector's Series
Volume 1 Number 18
1958

Gallimard
Paris
1976

Murder In March Madness Day 24

We are moving ever so closer to the end of the Murder in March Madness event. Today is the 24 the day of the event. Today's title is the 1997 film Murder At 1600.

Murder At 1600 (1997)

In a restroom in the White House, a janitor finds White House secretary Carla Town dead. Metropolitan Police homicide Detective Harlan Regis is put on the case. At the White House, Regis is introduced to U.S. Secret Service Director Nick Spikings, U.S. National Security Advisor Alvin Jordan and Secret Service agent Nina Chance. Spikings assigns Chance, a former Olympic gold-class sharpshooter, to keep an eye on Regis. Regis and Chance discover that Carla had an appointment in New York City and a flight from New York to the Virgin Islands, with no intention of returning to the U.S. The coroner then tells the detective and the agent that whoever had sex with Carla on the night of the murder used a condom, meaning that no DNA was left. The White House janitor was apparently unaccounted for on the night of the murder and had once attempted to make a pass at Carla He is arrested and questioned, but his testimony and a clearly set-up piece of evidence lead Regis to suspect that the Secret Service may be involved. That night, Regis finds his apartment burglarized; the culprit escapes, and in a subsequent search, a hidden bug is found.

Cast

Directed by Dwight H Little

Wesley Snipes as Detective Harlan Regis
Diane Lane as Agent Nina Chance
Daniel Benzali as Agent Nick Spikings
Dennis Miller as Detective Stengel
Alan Alda as National Security Adviser Alvin Jordan
Ronny Cox as President of the United States Jack Neil
Diane Baker as First Lady Kitty Neil
Tate Donovan as Kyle Neil
Harris Yulin as General Clark Tully
Tom Wright as Agent Cooper

Trivia

Based on the novel Murder in the White House (1980) by Margaret Truman