Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter D

I am back this year with the community meme Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 from Kerry's Blog. 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 doing a post on a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet. We currently up to the Letter D.

Carter Brown: D is for The Dream Is Deadly

The beautiful actress vanished.
Danny Boyd found her trail crossed with murder.....

Every night the gorgeous actress went insane to the staccato beat of an audience's applause. She ran the gamut of emotions in three acts. She laughed. she cried, she threatened, she pleaded. Then one weekend, at a posh party, she topped any performance she has ever given. She vanished without a trace for two years.

Barye Phillips Cover

A hot shot publisher hired Danny Boyd, the dashing and debonair private eye, to find out why the beautiful blonde was a dead issue and how she had disappeared. Boyd's investigation leads him headlong into a cast of oddball characters including a temperamental producer, a wanton redhead, a willing receptionist, and a plug-ugly killer, expert at calling the shots.

Various Covers

    

 

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #89 September 1960

International Editions Series #23 October 1962

Horwitz Double #09A July 1981
w/ The Savage Salome

New American Library

Signet Books

S1845  October 1960

S1845 October 1960 (Canada)

T5272 1972

Signet Double E9776 May 1981
w/ The Savage Salome

New English Library

Four Square Books

#604 1962

Note
Originally posted with slightly different content in May 2011

Lawless Lady by Larry Kent

"I Hate Crime"

  Printing History

author unknown

The Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd.

Novel Series #586

revised as What A Way To Go

Novel Series #812

What A Way To Go by Glen Chase

Cherry uses her body to fight the Mafia, 

So you can bet the bad guys die happy.

If You Got To Go

This Is The Way

Godfathers turn green and Dons duck for cover when Cherry Delight goes after the Mafia with everything she's got. As the world's foremost crime fighter, Cherry nails the wise guys wherever she finds them, whether it's in a New York penthouse or a cave in the mountains of Sicily, Cherry is a deadly shot and an expert in the martial arts. But to tell the naked truth, her most effective weapon is her gorgeous body. Using just a few grinds and bumps, Cherry can send the toughest mobster to that big pizza parlor in the sky but, man what a way to go!

Printing History

written by Gardner F Fox (1911-1986)

Cherry Delight #15
Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
LB208ZK (October 1974)

 

The Belfast Connection by Milton Bass

A Benny Freedman Thriller

Benny Freedman's interest in his Irish Catholic roots lands him in Belfast just in time for the funeral of Sean, his murdered cousin, and in the cross fire of hate, prejudice, and terrorism tearing the city apart. Jumping in the hunt for Sean's killer, Benny becomes privy to torture sessions, shoot-outs, death-defying confrontations, and narrowly escapes being blown up. But when  bullets get aimed in his direction, he suddenly realizes that finding the murderer is only half the battle. The other half is just staying alive. Studded with wry humor, and packed with non-stop action, Benny puts his wily half-Irish, half-Jewish charms in the middle of his most treacherous case yet.

Printing History

Written by Milton Bass (1923 - )

Hardcover

Copyright 1988

New American Library

Signet Books

ISBN 451 16230

November 1989

Terror Times Two by Jack Canon

The Russian Killmaster: 

N3 meets his double!

George Gross Cover

Nick Carter Killmaster #216

Boris Vandrostov. the very name inspired terror. He is the KGB's top assassin, aw well as their expert in chemical interrogation. If a man knew something the KGB wanted to know, Vandrostov could get it out of him. For ten years Nick Carter has chased the Russian killer. But the KGB man had always managed to slip away, once taking out tow good AXE agents and putting a bullet in Nick;s lung. Now, both of them are in Lisbon, bidding against each other to buy a secret that would revolutionize modern warfare. And they both know one sure way if getting it......

Printing History

Written by Jack Canon

Berkley Publishing Group

Charter Books

Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

ISBN 441 57285

August 1986

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter C

I am back this year with the community meme Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 from Kerry's Blog. 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 doing a post on a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet.

Carter Brown: C is for Catch Me A Phoenix!

Robert McGinnis Cover

When the breathtaking blonde with breathtaking ideas was sent to London to buy antiques, she took Danny Boyd along for protection. That was fine with Danny, until hot loot led him into double trouble that was almost too hot to handle....

How a tawny-eyed blonde...
A sizzling brunette....
A pair of priceless antiques....
Add up to murder.....

When Danny Boyd met a London bombshell who freewheeled a juggernaut through the quiet English countryside, he throught, "They don't speak Englsih in England!" She talked about ponces and birds, and skivvies, and layabouts, whatever they were! But then the hell-raking sensation took off her shiny leather skirt, she took off her black sweater, she stood there in her glistening black boots and black garters, and Danny, jet propelled, crashed through the language barrier!

It came to London via Bill Donavan. He invited a small select group to bid for it. They had nothing in common, except a seven figure bank account and the lust for the treasure. And they will stop at nothing to get it, well almost anything!

Various Other Covers

Tallinn Estonia (1994)

Antwerp Belgium (1982)

Finland (1967)

France (1966)

Germany (1967)

  Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #124 1965

International Edition Series # 76 1972 

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition #4 1979

New American Library

Signet Books

D2637 February 1965

Q5910 1974

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition E8825 August 1979

New English Library

Four Square Books

#1416 January 1966
 

Note
This title was originally posted on April 25, 2011
Catch Me A Phoenix!

The Dalmatian Tapes by Don Smith

Tape A Top-Secret Red Summit Meeting

Then Try To Get Out Alive!

Secret Mission #19

Listen and Die!

After a string of hair-raising mission, Phil Sherman was due for an easy one. And this was it. Wire up a sympathetic Yugoslavian cabinet minister and get two top Communists talking on tape. It looked simple, until the secret police killed the minister and pinned the rap on Phil, fleeing across the Dalmatian countryside. At least he had the tapes. 

Or did he?

Somebody had pulled a switch on him, but who? Was it Lokarda. the two-bit extortionist in Belgrade? Or Milica, the voluptuous, smokey-eyed guerrilla leader?  Or, worst of all, Rankovich, the dreaded commander of the secret police? Suddenly it was clear. one of them would get out of the country. Phil Sherman or the tape? But not both!

Printing History

Written by Don Smith

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Universal-Award House Inc

Award Books
First Printing AQ 1598 (1976)

Jake Strait Bogeyman #2 by Frank Rich

A bounty hunter turns reluctant revolutionary in the hellish free for all of the future

The Devil Knocks

Hell  Is For The Living

It is 2031, and beyond the lawless inner city lie the badlands where chemical and biological cesspools have driven nature to delirium and disorder. Massive superhighways crisscross he ruined countryside, promising a one way ticket  to anybody's worst nightmare. Denver is a police state, and a revolution waiting to happen. Jake Strait's job runs more to knocking off killers, not toppling cities. But things get hot enough in his own particular corner of hell hurtling across a toxic wasteland against an impregnable fortress looks good. Now Jake is the chosen hero of the hour, in a flat out race for the finish line where even victory will place him in double jeopardy.

Printing History

written by Frank Rich (1946 - )

World Wide Library 

Gold Eagle Books

September 1983

ISBN 373-63608

Over The Hump by Glen Chase

She wore stilettos on her toes, 

carried lethal gas in her perfume spray,

but Cherry's most deadly weapon was a very very soft curve.

When is a hump not a hump?

Cherry Delight, super sexy agent from N.Y.N.P.H.O. received her orders. Fly to North Africa, contact Sheik Abdullah and stay as close to him as possible in order to discover his connections with world crime. This Cherry did her usual flourish. She contacted the Sheik in her bathtub and stayed close to him. Sheik Abdullah stood against world crime, especially the Mafia, who were attempting to muscle in on North African oil deposits. Cherry joined forces with him and they humped their way across the desert, got caught in the middle of a Berber sex orgy, and had a final showdown with the Mafia and their desert rat allies. 

Printing History

written by Gardner F Fox (1911-1986)

Cherry Delight #13
Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
LB195ZK (August 1974)

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter B

I am back this year with the community meme Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 from Kerry's Blog. 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 doing a post on a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet.

Carter Brown: B is for The Brazen

Sex explodes into murder as Al Wheeler discovers that love can be lethal.....
    

Barye Phillips Cover

Al is drinking at this bar when a guy comes in and drops dead at his feet. It turns out the dead guy is a lawyer and the dead lawyer has set up a meeting with Wheeler and keels over killed by curare. Al gets to meet a redhead secretary, a blonde widow, and a silver blonde. But Al's trouble is that he is an unorthodox cop and this is an unorthodox case.

An ice-cold wife,
A fiery mistress,
And the dead man neither mourns

Robert McGinnis Cover

 They lure Pine City Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler into a sizzling nest of vipers, including a hot-shot lawyer, a hot-headed mobster, and a hot-blooded redhead. All dynamite, all at murderously close range!

German Edition

  Printing History

Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications
as Blonde Verdict 
Novel Series #13 May 1956
as The Brazen

Numbered Series #88 September 1960

International Edition Series #20 August 1962

Double Edition Series #8A February 1981
ISBN 7255 771
w/The Stripper

New American Library

Signet Books

S1836 August 1960

P4298 1970

J9575 February 1981
AE1704 1982
w/The Stripper

I'm Penny, Fly Me by Penny Sutton

It all started with some topless go-go dancing

Penny Sutton has done it again. She's blown the lid off the world of stewardesses and their secrets. This time it's the totally honest account of her experience i airline advertising. Behind those sweet smiles, behind those seductive poses, the true story. It will probably shock you..............it will certainly make you laugh.

Printing History

Written by Justin Cartwright (1933 - ) and Christopher Wood (1935 - )

Futura Publications Limited

ISBN 8600 7216

1975

Trivia

Christopher Wood adapted two James Bond novels into movies, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker

Mind to Mind by Donald Pendleton

Ashton Ford tangles with a sex cult!

The Silent Beauty

What intrigued Ashton Ford about this sadistically brutal "Jane Doe" case was that there was no handles to it, except a few satanic symbols. That and the silent, mysterious beauty of the women who had no idea who she was, why someone wanted her dead, or why the entire left hemisphere of her brain had been surgically removed, leaving her mute and helpless. For Ashton it was the toughest case of his life. To reach this silent mind with his own  and combat the evils of a deadly sex cult that threatened her life.

Ashton Ford #3

Printing History

Written by Don Pendleton (1927-1995)

Warner Books, Inc

Popular Library

ISBN 445 20254 (USA)

March 1987

ISBN 445 20255 (Canada)

March 1987

The Samurai Kill by Dennis Lynds

Agent N3 battles the ultimate biological weapon!

George Gross Cover

Nick Carter Killmaster #215

No one knew what it was. Or where it came from. Or why it had begun its rampage of destruction. Attacking scuba divers with its deadly sting. Sabotaging top secret U.S. installations for a "Star Wars" project. Destroying a Soviet spy sub. A biological weapon of unknown origins, the green vegetation thriving in the Pacific waters, striking and disappearing, inflaming the tension between the U.S. and Russia. Nick Carter is fast on the tracks of the mysterious force. But the plot has already been triggered........

Printing History

Written by Dennis Lynds (1924-2005)

Berkley Publishing Group

Charter Books

Published by arrangement with The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

ISBN 441 57284

July 1986

My Son, The Double Agent by Ted Mark

Ted Mark Spy Thriller #8

Spies Have Mothers, Too!

......and Steve Victor's mother worried!

Steve couldn't understand why. After all everything was normal...normal for Steve Victor, that is. He had a new top-secret assignment from the highest levels of the United States government. As usual, it was on a "take it, or else" basis, the enemy's aim was world domination, and he was totally on his own, without even a hope of assistance if he goofed. What could be new? Well..maybe life was a little tougher than normal. The enemy had even greater resources and fantastic weapons than usual.Even more women than usual were giving him the runaround. Then, too, he was facing a murder rap he hadn't committed. And there seemed to be a clever Romeo who was exact double committing all sorts of dastardly acts which he was getting blamed for.....Oh P.S., Mom: He lost his pants!

Printing History

Written by Theodore Mark Gottfried (1928- )

Lancer Books

73-485 (1966)

Trivia 

The actor on the cover is Steve Holland (1925-1997)

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter A

I am back this year with the community meme Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 from Kerry's Blog. 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 doing a post on a Carter Brown title for each letter of the alphabet.

Carter Brown: A is for Angel!

Angel was published in June1962 and features the unorthodox cop, Al Wheeler. Al investigates the dangerous aerial skylarking of a group of ex-Air Force buddies and witnesses an explosion that kills one of them. Evidence reveals that the tragic accident was, indeed, no accident and the mystery deepens as several suspects and motives come to light. The Angel of the title is a blonde bombshell, considered by the fliers to be a lucky mascot, obviously not so lucky for one of them. 

Robert McGinnis Cover

Angel was 100% female, she was the answer to every mans dream. Beside her, even Venus took second place. One minute with Angel and Al Wheeler actually found himself enjoying the fact he had been sent to check out a routine traffic complaint. Five minutes with Angel and Al knew he was in for the right place, at the right time, with the right girl. Because in those five minutes, He had become a witness to murder.

Robert McGinnis Cover

Joy Ride to Death

The murder victim was the wrong man. The ex-jet flier took up the plane out of turn. And because he did, he died.out of turn. All the evidence there was disintegrated in mid-air with the exploding plane. The mourners  included six prime suspects: Three other ex-jet jockeys, ex-buddies of the murderer man, an airplane mechanic with a grudge, and two delectable dolls, one of whom was the intended victim's wife, the other his current "girl of the week".

Various Other Covers

Grant Roberts Cover

Croatia 2004

Moscow 1992

Printing History

Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #97 June 1962

International Edition Series #33 1963

Double Edition Series #10A 1981

New American Library

Signet Books

S2094 March 1962

D3413 1969

AE1027 September 1981

Note
Original Post from July 2011 below
Angel! by Carter Brown

Fire In The Hole by Glen Chase

Cherry turns the 

energy crisis into 

an energetic climax 

when she finds a 

gusher in Death Valley

Cherry Delight has to stop the Mafia from claiming the huge Death Valley oil deposits. She had orders from N.Y.M.P.H.O. to cap the capo's gusher with her own well-oiled well. Whether making it behind an oil barrel or behind a gun barrel, Cherry is like an explosive charge, you've got to yell "Fire in the hole!" before you push in the plunger and set her off.

Printing History

written by Gardner F Fox (1911-1986)

Cherry Delight #12
Nordon Publications, Inc
Leisure Books
LB175ZK (June 1974)

Action Series and Sequels by Bernard A. Drew

A Bibliography of Espionage, Vigilante, and Soldier-of-Fortune Novels

Printing History

Written by Bernard A Drew (1950- )

Garland Reference Library Of The Humanities

ISBN 8240 8396

Volume 842

1988

Replenishing Jennifer by John Colleton

An unchaste novel of delicious sexual excess

Printing History

written by Robert W Marks (1908-1993)

New American Library 

Signet Books

ISBN 451 W6307

February 1975

Two Vintage Titles by Hank Janson

Two Stories by Hank Janson

Printing History
Written by Stephen D Frances (1917-1989)

Gaywood Press LTD
London England

New Fiction Press
Lilies For My Lovely
First Series
1949
7th Edition

Torment For Trixie
Second Series
1950
7th Edition

The Retaliators by Donald Hamilton

Trying to frame Matt Helm is a dangerous business.......

Cover by Gordon Johnson

Matt Helm was unexpectedly rich and he didn't like it. The $20,000 that had been deposited in his account was a complete surprise. Very nice. Except Matt knew that someone was setting him up, making it look as though he were a traitor and getting a payoff. Someone who wanted Matt out of the business. Suddenly, another agent with an unexpected surplus in his bank account was murdered. Matt figured he'd better tack down his "benefactors" before they retired him for good.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Copyright
1976

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 13567
August 1976


Ballantine Books
ISBN 449 12694
First Printing (December 1983)
Second Printing (June 1984)