Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter W: Part Two

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just four weeks left. We are currently in week 23 with the letter W. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post must be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction. This time around I will be featuring a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet.

Carter Brown: W is for The Wanton

Two beautiful nude corpses leave Lieutenant Al Wheeler in the middle of a society family's scandal 

 

Barye Philips Cover

  The beautiful blonde heiress was living high and fast until a killer slowed her down 

Robert McGinnis Cover

   When a pretty blond heiress is found hanging from a limb of a tree, twenty feet off the ground, wearing nothing but skin tight rope around her pretty neck...Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler goes into action. The rough and tough detective trades questions and answers with a volcanic brunette in a sultry couch session. Matches techniques with a gambler who knows all about feminine angles. Dodges the bullets of a killer who seems determined to build the largest collection of naked corpses in sunny California. 

Grant Roberts Cover

   Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #79 August1959

Long Story Magazine #5 December 1959

International Edition Series #10 December 1961, March 1965

New American Library Series

Signet Books (USA and Canada)

1st (1713) Sept 1959

2nd (1713) Canada 1959

3rd (D2962) 1966

New English Library

Four Square Books

1st (2252) Sept 1968

Other Covers 

UK

New English Library

 Four Square Books

 Sept 1968

Brazil

Publicado Pela Edicoes De Ouro

n/d

 

France

Gallimard

1960, 1971

 

Netherlands

 Middernacht

1962

 

Estonia

Katariina 

 1998

Russia

n/d

Germany/Switzerland

 Die Mitternachtbucher 

1962

 Germany/Austria

 Die Mitternachtbucher

 1974

Japan

 Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book 

1968

 

Notes

This title was originally published on  March 23, 2011 in a sightly different format.

The Wanton 

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter L...Part One

We are chugging, like a fast moving train, along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are up to the letter L. Kerry's Blog is kind enough to sponsor this community meme each and every week. The rules are very simple:  The posts must be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction. This time around I will be featuring a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet. This week I had a difficult time deciding which title to showcase. So I decided to do a three part Letter L. For the next three days I will highlight a different Carter Brown title.

First up this week

Carter Brown: L is for The Lady Is/Not Available

 

She was the most talented pro in the whole art colony.
Her sex appeal was sheer genius and pure murder!

Bella made friends at the drop of a bikini. She was a beautiful Bohemian who wore the scantiest of bathing suits when she painted, and less when she entertained. Her uninhibited hospitality made it hard for Lieutenant Al Wheeler to keep business before pleasure. But he was a cop and he was there to ask questions about a murder. 

  

An artist dies violently and Al Wheeler begins a deadly and dangerous case. A case that leads from an artist's studio to a tycoon's plush penthouse office. From a lovely wanton to a strait-laced society wife. From a mysterious picture to multiple death. 

Robert McGinnis Cover

  Who painted the lady without her clothes? When an oil tycoon commissions a young artist to do his wife's portrait, he hardly expected to see the finished product, perfect, pink-fleshed...and nude. It was too late for explanations. The artist lay dead beneath the easel, the picture was slashed with a cross of blood and the hysterical wife insisted she never took off her clothes. 

Robert McGinnis Cover

 

Robert McGinnis Cover

Mort Kunstler Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.
Sydney Australia

Numbered Series #105 1962,1963

International Edition Series #56 1968

Bolinda Publishing
Victoria Australia

Large Print Edition August 1999

New American Library

Signet Books

#2244 January 1963

D3410 March 1968

D3410 March 1968 (Canada)

Male Publishing Corp

Volume 13 No 5

May 1963

 The Naked Wanton
Condensed from The Lady Is Available
Art by Samson Pollen 

New English Library

Four Square Books

1st Edition 1964

#2127 April 1968

Other Publishers
 
ADA
 Russia
1993

 Die Mitternachtsbucher #264
Copyright 1965
Printed in German
Translated by Georg Ackerman

Middernacht-Serie

Netherlands

n/d

Valpas-Mainos 

Finland

1965

 

Gallimard  

Paris

1964,1977

Wennerberg 

Stockholm Sweden

1963

 

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

Tokyo Japan

1963

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter L...Part Two

Part 2 of the Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 Letter L

Carter Brown: L is for The Lady Is Transparent

Meet the only beauty who won't succumb to Al Wheeler's charms:
Delia- a wanton witch who must be about her business....of murder

   

Even Al Wheeler can't make this gorgeous ghost forget that her pleasure is murder   

Robert McGinnis Covers

A gabled mansion on Bald Mountain. A deserted room with its windows boarded, its door locked from the inside. And in the room the corpse of an unsuccessful suitor, his throat savagely and efficiently torn out. California cop Al Wheeler come to Bald Mountain to investigate the murder and finds himself the unwelcome guest of the Harvey Family.

   

Ellis

 His two luscious dark-haired daughters, Justine and Martha. 

Well traveled, money seeking Uncle Ben

 and the family ghost Delia, a passionate wanton who is a Spectre of Death.

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #101 1962

International Edition Series #52 1967

New American Library

Signet Books

S2148 July 1962

S2148 Canada

D3251 September 1967

D3251 September 1967 (Canada)

P4344 1970

Other Various Covers

Middernacht-Serie #53

Netherlands

n/d

 

  

Wennerberg 

Stockholm Sweden

1962

  

Valpas-Mainos 

Finland

1965

Gallimard  

Paris

1963,1978

Hayakawa Pocket Mystery Book  

Tokyo Japan

1963

Die Mitternachtsbucher
Germany and Switzerland
1964, 1976 

Russia
n/d

Note
This title was originally posted in a slightly different form in April 2011 and February 2012
The Lady Is Transparent

The Lady Is Transparent Dutch Edition

The Temptress (Horwitz Edition) by Carter Brown

Al Wheeler investigates a wealthy wanton 17 year old who courted murder.....

Horwitz Photo Cover

A corpse in a cheap motel and a wanton runaway heiress set Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler investigating scandal in the high school set and an unorthodox sidewalk suicide. She's the minor who's majoring in men.

Long Story Magazine #16

 Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc
Numbered Series #87 (1960)
Long Story Magazine #16 (November 1960)
International Edition #19 (June 1962)

The original post from April 2011 Temptress
The UK Edition: Temptress (UK)

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter W: Part One

The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps rolling along in the home stretch with just four weeks left. We are currently in week 23 with the letter W. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. The post must be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction. This time around I will be featuring a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet.

 Carter Brown: W is for The Wayward Wahine

The seductive rhythm of an exotic Hawaiian girl's primitive hula dance lures 

Danny Boyd into the arms of a killer.

Barye Philips Cover

  She was one hundred per cent impure Hawaiian. From her long and lustrous black hair to her small and delicate feet which moved as her whole body moved in a passionate pagan rhythm. With a sensuous gesture she stepped out of her grass skirt and into Danny Boyd's love life.

Robert McGinnis Cover

 On the sunny shares of beautiful Hawaii, private Danny Boyd goes hunting for a wealthy tycoon's missing wife. The trail starts out cold with a dead blonde, warms up with some buried treasure, and sizzles when Danny comes into close contact with a wahine who is wayward, wanton, and oh so willing to pitch woo Hawaiian style. With the curves and kisses and no holds barred. 

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

 

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #84 February 1960
Long Story Magazine #11 June 1960

International Edition Series #16 April 1962

as The Wayward

International Edition Series #69 February 1971

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition CB 007A 1980
w/Walk Softly, Witch

New American Library

Signet Books

#1784 February 1960

#D3067 1966

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition  #9418 Sept 1980
w/Walk Softly, Witch

The Tigress by Carter Brown

The wanton redhead was like a tigress stalking her mate....and she made fair game for a killer.

Horwitz Edition

She was a dazzling redhead with sultry eyes and a flashing temper. She was a dedicated siren in search of love. And she considered every member of the opposite sex her willing prey. Any man would have jumped at the bait she offered. Lieutenant Al Wheeler of the Pine City police department didn't. That was his first mistake.....

Barye Cover

Double Edition

Printing History

Horwitz Publications inc.

Numbered Series #93 1961

International Edition Series #29 1963

Double Edition #10A 1981

New American Library

Signet Books

S1989 Sept 1961
D3212 June 1967

D3212 June 1967 (Canada)

Double Edition AE1027 Sept 1981

Signet 3rd Printing

Lover, Don't Come Back! by Carter Brown

She was a truly hell-fired blonde. A devil's delight who wanted Danny Boyd to find her killer..after she was dead.

Horwitz Edition

"I want you to find my murderer, Mr Boyd," she said gently, "after I'm dead."

The girl was a kook, a nut, a psycho, but she was the most gorgeous kook Danny Boyd had ever seen. Her figure would have sent Cleopatra into hiding. And her face was everything a face should be; classic, sensuous. An enticing face with a go-to-hell gleam in enormous blue eyes and a derisive smile of invitation on wanton lips. One look and Danny was her willing slave, ready to do her bidding, to follow no matter where she might lead.

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #102 1962

International Series #53 1967

Horwitz Double #013A 1982

New American Library

Signet Books

S2183 August 1962

P3963 1969

Signet Double 1982