5th Anniversary

Today marks this blogs 5th anniversary 

This year, instead of rehashing the two book titles that got me started enjoying reading mysteries and spy stories. I will highlight the introduction of the characters of my favorite author, Mr Carter Brown. He brought into the world numerous characters with his stories and novelettes. He would settle on a handful of reoccurring characters, seven to be exact. His most famous would be Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler, in which he would appear from 1955 until 1984.
 

Al Wheeler (1955-1984)

Police Lieutenant in Pine City California

Danny Boyd (1957-1984)

New York City Private Eye that moves to California later in the series

Rick Holman (1961-1984)

Hollywood Trouble Shooter

Mavis Seidlitz (1955-1974)

 Blonde private investigator with Gracie Allen tendencies

 Randal Robert (1971-1976)

Lawyer 

Paul Donovan (1974-1979)

Millionaire Adventurer 

Larry Baker (1955-1975)

TV Gag Writer with his partner Boris Sivka

Off to another year

Murder On High by Carter Brown

Beauty, The Beast, and Square Daddy

When San Fransisco lawyer Randall Roberts went looking for "Calvin" Sandra Stillwell, a hip, back to nature virgin beauty and no so incidentally heiress to a small fortune he didn't expect his search to take him through the orgiastic den of an apeman. But if the beast could steer him to his beauty, who was he to complain, especially when the apeman's harem was his for the loving So off to the commune, where Randall found himself bedazzled by "Calvin's" virginal beauty and the psychedelic smoke clouds her commune buddies blew his way. But behind the clouds the corpses began piling up, and the commune brothers crash landed from the worst trips kids could take, a needle in the arm and a deadly dose of big H to the heart. And suddenly find the heiress became find the heroin before big H found Square Daddy Roberts for keeps...!

Bonus Covers

Vietnam (2003)

 Norway (1974)

Germany (1974)

Printing History

 Written by Alan G Yates (1922-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Numbered Series #170 1973

ISBN 7255 0225

New American Library

Signet Books

T 5249 April 1973

Murder In The Family Way by Carter Brown

Lawyer Randy Roberts tangles with a trio of sex-starved sisters whose lascivious lust for loot leads to.......

Robert McGinnis Cover

Who Murderer Momma?

The cops called it an accident. But attorney Randy Roberts knew the smell of murder. Someone had taken old lady Birrel for an unwilling ride off the edge of a cliff, and with five million bucks to gain, all clues pointed to the batty gal's daughters as the prime suspects. But who would grown impatient? Hannah, the mousy, fearful vegetable of a women with king-sized lusts? Or Rhoda the splendidly stacked nympho whom the family kept chained in a basement cell? Or was it Ruth, the smouldering hunk of sex and cynicism whose interests in Robert's "briefs" was more than just legal? Finding the truth, Roberts knew, called for the most intimate of investigations. The kind you undertake with your defenses up, and your clothes off.

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Group Books Pty Limited

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #160 (1972)

New American Library

Signet Books

ISBN 451 T4722

August 1971

The Angry Amazons by Carter Brown

Liberty, Equality, Murder

Signet Photo Cover

The first corpse, a bullet through the remains of its male brain, was sprawled smack in the middle of Amazon Acres. Amazon Acres was headquarters of the nation's fastest growing tribe of furious feminists. As lawyer to the lady libbers, Randall Roberts was supposed to protect his shapely clients. Yet the more he dug for information, the more it seemed like he was digging his own grave. For the gals, who mastered equal parts dunning and karate, obviously had something to hide. That, Roberts knew, was as transparent as a see-through blouse.

Horwitz Photo Cover

Printing History

Horwtiz Publications Inc.

Copyright 1972

Numbered Series #166  (March 1973)
ISBN 7255 206

Printed in Hong Kong by Peninsula Press Ltd.

New American Library

Signet Books

T5133 (September 1972)

Trivia

Danny Boyd makes a guest appearance. The second of two guest appearances for other characters. The first being Mavis Seidlitz and Al Wheeler together in Lament For A Lousy Lover.