The Charmer Chased by Carter Brown

1958 Horwitz Edition

Stanton Z Stanton lived on Snake Island and is insured for two million dollars against becoming radioactive. Our main character is Sam Dunn, insurance investigator, turns into Doctor Samuel Dunn. It seams Stanton is a herpetologist. Upon reaching the island, Sam finds out that snakes were not the only thing that hissed. Take Stanton's wife for example. She had a penchant for money and murder. Then Doctor Carey's practice covered more than curing the sick. And Stanton himself, who passed the time of day locked in a room with barred windows. Dunn found out he had to work fast for the female population was dwindling  fast and a certain Police Lieutenant considered him a candidate for murder. So Sam has a little reptile to keep him company to cheer him up, but the cobra was too close for comfort. The Charmer Chased was the 64th entry in Horwitz's Numbered Series and published in 1958.

The Defector by George Snyder

George Snyder answered an ad in the New York Times by Award Books. The Defector is the first of his seven Nick Carters he wrote.

1969 Award Edition

The theft of the deadly formula.                                                 
The school for Red spies.
The army of man eating rats.
The exotic house of pleasure
The diamond dagger caked with blood.
The hidden pellet of cyanide.

All of them played a vital part of Nick Carter's latest assignment. Prevent a top American scientist from defecting to China. Nick had only one lead, a beautiful women with a special fondness for sex spiced with savagery. The scene was Hong Kong. The mission was to find Professor Loo, whose scientific knowledge could give the Red Chinese protection against any nuclear attack. Nick battles strange enemies, the threatening Chin Ossa and the beautiful Sheila Kwan.

Printing History

Written by George Snyder

1st Award (A405X) 1969

2nd Award(A643X) 1970?

3rd Award (A925S) 1972

4th Award (AN 1264) 1974

1st Tandem (3631) 1969

Tandem Reprint (5469) 1971

Tandem Reprint (17398) Dec 1972

Star (30483) 1979

Star Reprint (30483) 1981

1972 Award Edition                              1974 Award Edition

1972 Tandem Reprint                                1981 Star Edition

Murder Is My Mistress by Carter Brown

copyright 1954 Associated General Publications

Julian Cross is hired to find out the death of a dog. He would not have done it except for the money. He meets the suspects at a party that produced something new out of a box, a murder. A screwball murder, as he told his employer. A bunch of screwballs. Sylvia Stamford, a silver blonde who never stopped acting when she left the stage. Johnny Zoan an ex-racketeer. Theresa Boon, a sultry blonde with the beat of tom-toms in her voice. Juliet, a tall redhead and every inch of her a women. Jeff Peters, the guy people flattered when they call him a moron. Helen Mills, the girl with the horn-rimmed glasses with a burning need for a psychiatrist. And  D'Aguerri, who was even more irritating as a memory than he had every been when he was alive. But Cross is not undaunted as no blonde can side track him for more than a couple days at a time. No gun at his ribs can give him hysterics as he gets them as soon as he sights the gunman. When he finally tracks down the murderer, he stands his ground as there is no place to run. Murder Is My Mistress was first published by Associated General Publications in December 1954. Horwitz Publications then published this title in the Numbered Series in 1955 as #8. Murder Is My Mistress was published in the United States as The Savage Salome, as a Danny Boy mystery, by Signet Books in January 1961. Horwitz did also publish The Savage Salome in 1961 in the Numbered Series as #91. The Associated General Publications edition was the only Carter Brown title published in hard cover.

Printing History

 Murder Is My Mistress (Julian Cross)

December 1954 by Associated General Publications

1955 by Horwitz Publications Numbered Series #8

1960 by Horwitz Publications Reprint By Demand Series #19

The Savage Salome (Danny Boyd)

January 1961 by New American Library Signet Books S1896

March 1961 by Horwitz Publications Long Story Magazine #20

1961 by Horwitz Publications Numbered Series #91

1962 by Horwitz Publications International Edition #IE26

1971 by New American Library Signet Books T4423

May 1981 by Horwitz/Signet Double Edition #9/E9776 

May 1981 New American Library of Canada E9776

1961 First Signet and 3rd Signet Printings

Canadian 2nd Printing

Rhodesia by William L Rhodes

Nick Carter arch enemy Mr Judas returns in Rhodesia. It began with a black man, a white women, and enough gold to ransom the world. The man was consumed with race hatred, driven to senseless slaughter by a single minded plan for retribution. The women was possessed by the need for every variety of sensual delight. The gold was mined secretly in Rhodesia, owned by a die-hard Nazi who had long ago sacrificed his soul and sanity to insatiable dream of glory. This was the trio that awaited Nick in Rhodesia. He was on a brutal seek and destroy mission against an organization of assassins that had infiltrated every country in Africa.

The killer dogs attacked on a lonely mountain road: Only an accident saved Nick's life.
The hired killer waited patiently, knife poised, for Nick to come into view: But the AXE agent emerged alive from the savage duel.
The girl, driven by hate and lust, set the trap with infinite care: Nick Carter heeded an instinctive warning and once again the wrong man died.

1970 Award Edition

Printing History

Written by William L Rhodes

Award Editions

1st Printing (A409X) 1968

2nd Printing (A630X) 1970

3rd Printing (AN1097) ?

Tandem Editions

1st Printing (3551) 1968

Reprint (5936) 1971

Star (30467) 1979

Notes

There are more than 3 printings as other titles were reprinted in the same time frame as this title in 1972 through 1974.

Tandem/Star Editions

Tempt A Tigress by Carter Brown

1958 Horwitz Edition

If you ever wondered what happened to all the screwball you used to know? They are sent to Louisiana. Private Eye Danny Boyd was sent to Louisiana to entice a one million dollar worth  film star away from a sinister character by the named of Von Essen. Short of kidnapping and murdering the character was Boyd getting nowhere fast. Danny keeps an appointment in a summer house with a blonde, had just been kissed, when he hears a blood curdling scream. The body had its throat torn out, pointing to a tiger. It would have been an open and shut case, but for one fact: There are no tigers in Louisiana. Danny had proof the film actress could turn herself into a tigress at will. And she was ready to kill again.  Tempt A Tigress is the 62nd title in Horwitz's Numbered Series and published in 1958.

14 Seconds To Hell by Jon Messman

1975 Award 4th printing

The death factory was somewhere in a carefully hidden corner of China. It sheltered Peking's gigantic nuclear arsenal. Its master was a crazed genius whose hatred was fanned by an amoral, corrupt, breathtakingly beautiful woman.  He rigged the bombs to explode on voice command. The targets were the United States and Russia. Nick Carter's mission was direct and impossible. Penetrate the core of Red China and destroy the site. He also had to betray the two agents without whom he could not complete the assignment. The sensual bonde twins sent by the KGB to help Nick. Leave them behind to die in withering agony.  Author Jon Messman (1920-2004) answered a New York Times ad and this is his first of fifteen Nick Carter Killmaster adventures. He will write for the series until late 1970 before going on to start his own series; "The Revenger", "Jefferson Boone, Handyman" and "The Trailsman"

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman (1920-2004)

Award Books

1st Printing (A376X) November 1968

2nd Printing (A637X) September 1970

3rd Printing (A927S) January 1972

4th Printing (AQ1448) April 1975

Tandem Books

1st Printing (3578) 1968

Reprint (unkn) 1971

Reprint (5944) June 1972

1st and 3rd Award Printings

Tandem Editions

Stripper You've Sinned by Carter Brown

Late 1956 Horwitz Edition

Mark Whitman, a criminal lawyer, meets a blonde at a party. In the conversation he is invited to her birthday party. He does not find out who she is until the next day. He falls asleep at the party and finds her invitation. She, the blonde is none other that Theresa Van Clune. Her father is some big shot oil millionaire. Theresa is kidnapped and Mark gets the job to get her back. Meanwhile, Mark is hired by The Big Wheel to find a guy by the name of Waldo Malone. Mr Malone got out of the State Pen and was heading into town and The Big Wheel wanted to talk to him. Mark does not want to play but Big Joe does some roughing up. So the oil millionaire wants Mark to find his daughter, persuaded with money. The Big Wheel wanted him to find a guy persuaded by the butt of a gun owned by Big Joe. It would have been simple if the kidnapping was real the first time and fake the second. Cops wanted Mark for murder and Big Joe wanted him to murder. In the end Mark finds out who The Big Wheel is. Stripper You've Sinned was the last Horwitz title published in 1956 and was the reprint of Strip Without Tease that was published in 1954.

Temple Of Fear by Manning Lee Stokes

Lost: America's top agent on a bizarre assassination assignment.
Found: Fragments of an incredible espionage plot. Targets-United States and Red China.
Reward: The world in flames or peace, depending on who won.

Somewhere in Tokyo's espionage jungle a shocking double cross warned that the plot was underway. America's super secret espionage network, AXE, moved to assign its top operative, Nick Carter to Japan. But Nick disappeared. Drugged and kidnapped by the oldest ploy in the book. A beautiful women with a body built for betrayal. And for the first time, Nick finds himself helpless, weaponless, alone, and trapped into helping the enemy. Nick assumes the identity of a man long dead as he hunts for a lovely but lethal double agent through the neon wilderness of Tokyo's Ginza. He matches wits and bullets with the strangest enemy, knowing that one false move could mean a world in flames.

1975 Award Edition                           1978 Charter Edition

1970 Award Edition

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes

USA Printings

1st Award Edition (A367X) Oct 1968

2nd Award Edition (A629X) Oct 1970

3rd Award Edition (AQ 1440) March 1975

Charter Edition (80215 X) 1978

UK Printings

1st Tandem (?) 1968

Tandem Reprint (426 5805) 1971

Tandem Reprint (426 5805) March 1972

Notes

The inside cover of the first printing states that the Nick Carter Killmaster Series has been published in 50 other countries that include: France, Japan, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Norway and Holland.

Tandem Edition Reprints

Strictly For Felony by Carter Brown

1956 Horwitz Edition

The main character of this 1956 Carter Brown tale is Joe Keeling. He is a fixer and is building himself quite a reputation around town. Anytime someone is in trouble, go and see Joe and he will fix it. Get drunk and kill somebody, Joe will fix it. Take out a girl, get drunk, and beat her, Joe will fix it. In this story a movie producer is in trouble. The big boys have sunk over a million dollars into a motion picture that will have to fight its way through censorship. Joe is to frame the dame who is trying to take the producer for some money. Joe frames the dame ok but there are complications. Somebody murders somebody and frames him for the murder. All he has to do is stay clear of the blondes, keep out of the cops way, and beat the big wheels at their own game. Strictly For Felony is the 21st entry in Horwitz's Number Series. Horwitz also published this title in 1959 along with the title Murder She Says in the Second Collectors Edition Volume 1, Number 23.

Amsterdam by William L Rhodes

Nick was briefed on the incredible private espionage network that used the blond Amlie de Boer as a special courier. He was also briefed on the theft of nuclear secrets of the United States that was masterminded by Amlie's boss. Also briefed on the sleek international diamond cartel that ran a strange school for double and triple agents with Amlie's help. Only Amlie could help Nick Carter find and destroy the menace to America, if he can keep her alive. For she held the key.

1970 Award Reprint

Printing History

Written by William L Rhodes

1st Award (A366X) 1968

1st Tandem (T240) 1968

2nd Award (A628X) 1970

Notes

This the only cover used and reused. I am sure there is a later Tandem reprint but have not found it yet.