Goddess Gone Bad by Carter Brown

Murder locked away four million dollars and the key was a................

Horwitz Edition

Max Dumas saw the dame first, but Benny insisted they toss, so Max flipped the coin and landed him a seat next to her, and a pack of trouble any gambler would be ashamed to admit to. By the law of averages the brunette should have looked Max up when they landed at Begota. But how could she? She was dead? It was time for Benny and Max to skip, but the ebony carving with the map inside intrigued Max. Seems it did others. They slipped in, like a Micky Finn, and even left a memento of their visit, a corpse in the closet. Then the dead women's sister, a dame whose statistics were more interesting than any competitor's figure, offered  them a proposition. Find the lost Inca city and they would be millionaires. Benny and Max flew to Malo and found the treasure. But they had not gambled on being double-crossed by a dame, whose pay-off was a promise that maybe in a hundred years some would discover their bones!

Printing History

Horwitz Publications, Inc.

Numbered Series #69

1958

Trivia

Max Dumas appears in two other titles:
Luck Was No Lady
Deadly Miss

Luck Was No Lady by Carter Brown

She played a fast game and left me to collect.....

Horwitz Edition

Max Dumas, professional gambler, and professional anything else that happens to come his way. He has no ambition to spend the next ten years in a Mexican jail so he crashed the road blocks and outsmarted the cops. Outsmarted? Sure if one would call being hooked into an international kidnapping racket smart!. It started when Max gambled his way into the bridal suite at a Acapulco hotel. The previous occupant had flown back to America, minus is clothes. Max knew the airlines carried most people, but not a practicing nudist already practicing. Max gambled with the blond. lost his money and win a visit to a sinister character named Cordova. The odds increased and his chances of survival lessened. He found himself flying a plane against a hurricane and the stakes this time were his life....

Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #63 (1958)

Deadly Miss by Carter Brown

Max Dumas is in Acapulco when is approached by a brunette.  The brunette is Virginia Long and she has a proposition for Max. But before he can accept her offer he is contacted by a Elias Castanello to have Dumas fly some cargo to Ecuador for seventy five thousand pesos. It turns out the cargo is guns. Virginia make an appearance before Max and his sidekick, Benny take off the next morning. She double crosses Castanello by shooting him while taking off. In the end enemies turn out to be allies and a revolution does not happen. Thanks to Max Dumas.

Horwitz Edition

Deadly Miss was published in 1958 by Horwitz Publications and was the 65th entry into the Numbered Series.