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Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter K

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Jun 172013

We are rolling along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. This week we are up to the letter K. 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.

Carter Brown: K is for Kiss Michelle Goodbye

US Edition 1981

She was the life of the party.

Until she wound up dead!

Horwitz Edition 1984

Danny Boyd's search for a missing girl began with a messy murder, and it was all uphill from then on. He'd been retained by the murder victim, Zandra Lyn, to find her friend Michelle, who'd mysteriously vanished somewhere in Santo Bahia. Boyd figured there had to be a connection between Zandra's death and Michelle's disappearance, and when the bullets started to fly in his direction, he knew he was right. Danny also knew that a dead detective would not be much good to his dead employer, but it looked like the next victim to be kissed off would be Boyd himself.

Various Covers

Finland 1985

France 1983

Russia n/d

Sweden 1981

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Castle Books (1984)

ISBN 7255 1733

Distributed by Horwitz Grahame Books Pty Ltd.

Tower Publications, Inc.

Tower Books (June 1981)

ISBN 505 51756

Note
This title appeared on August 2011 in a slightly different form.

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter I

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Jun 032013

We are rolling along in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2013 meme. Currently we are a third of the way through with the Letter I. Kerry's Blog is kind enough to sponsor this community meme. 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.

Carter Brown: I is for Ice Cold Nude

Danny Boyd is after a stolen tiara, but finds an.........

Private eye Danny Boyd always makes sure his detecting involves ample dollars and dames. He likes his girls glamorous but he had not bargained on the blonde wearing a diamond tiara under the shower. When her only other ornament was a bullet hole in the forehead. When Boyd sets out to trap a jewel thief the top suspects on his list turns out to be very beautiful and very dead corpse, the first of five. Alive she wanted mink. And dead only diamonds would do.

"Diamonds are a girl's worst friend"

That is what Danny always says, and take it from him, he is right, dead right. This particular case started with a gorgeous gal and a dazzling diamond tiara, a $100,000 fiery fascinator that any girl night be tempted with. This particulat gal wasn't. And because she wasn't she paid for her mistake with her life. And Danny almost did, with his.

Various Other Covers

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications
Numbered Series #98 (1962)
International Edition Series #35 (1963)
Double Edition Series #13A (1982)
w/Lover Don't Come Back

New American Library

Signet Books

S2110 (April 1962)
S2110 (May 1962, Canada)

D3876 (May 1969)
D3876 (May 1969, Canada)

Double Carter Brown Edition
AE1780 (September 1982)
w/Lover Don't Come Back

New English LibraryLtd.

Four Square Books
#706 (1962)

Note

This title was originally posted in March 2011.

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter E

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May 072013

We rolling along with the community meme Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013 sponsored by Kerry's Blog. We currently up to the Letter E. The posts are simple enough. 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: E is for The Ever-Loving Blues

Requiem For A Bikini

It was an itsy-bitsy white polka-dot bikini.

She was a beautiful brunette, curvy, kissable, cuddly.

Too bad they had come together, in death.

Barye Phillips Cover

Danny Boyd, the private eye with the profile no gal can resist, accepts a movie mogul's bid to track down a wandering, wanton star. He winds up playing fast with a loose redhead, and footy with a couple of thugs on a fifteenth-century Spanish galleon in sunny Florida, where the climate is perfect for murder.

Ron Lesser Cover

Various Other Covers

Originally titled
Death of a Doll

Second Collectors' Series

International Edition 1962

Numbered Series 1956

Reprint By Demand Series 1960


International Edition 1971 (2nd Printing)

Horwitz/Signet Double Edition Series

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series 1956 (#11)

Second Collectors' Series Oct 1958 (v1 n20)

w/Black-mail Beauty

Reprint By Demand Series July 1960 (#20)

Long Story Magazine April 1961 (#21)

International Edition Nov 1962 (IE21) 1971 (IE70)

New American Library

Signet Books

Signet Edition March 1961 (S1919)

Signet Edition Canada 2nd Printing January 1969 (D3722)

Signet Edition US 3rd Printing January 1969 (D3722)

Horwitz/Signet Double May 1982 (#11a) (AE1520)

w/The Sad-Eyed Seductress

Trivia
Death Of A Doll was written with the main character Barney Slade and then rewritten with the character Danny Boyd when the title was revised.

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter D

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Apr 302013

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

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter C

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Apr 232013

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 Sad-Eyed Seductress by Carter Brown

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Jan 012013

One look at her and Danny Boyd knew

A blonde with her kind of eyes

Would be murder!!!


Robert McGinnis Cover

Through the half-open bedroom door Danny Boyd glimpsed a gorgeous pair of legs. One neatly clad in sheer nylon and a high heeled shoe, the other naked and barefoot. He walked in and saw the blonde lying on the bed. She was everything the first tantalizing view had promised. Sultry. Seductive. Scintillating. And they were alone...together. Only one thing was wrong. Now he knew the reason for her one bare leg. Someone had wrapped the missing nylon tight around her pretty throat......

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1926-1985)

New American Library

Signet Books

S2023

November 1961

More covers and the original post from April 2011 below.

The Seductress by Carter Brown

The Savage Sisters by Carter Brown

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Nov 042012

"The Group" was a very private club.

But private eye Danny Boyd could join their fun

if he would play their game of sex, dollars, and death....

Orgy of Death

"The Group" was the swingingest bunch of millionaires who ever turned a dishonest dollar. Four business wheeler-dealers and four beautiful babes, playing fast and loose with love, loot, and life. Anyone who thought he could break up this gang had better watch out! Then buxom, blonde Erica Radcliffe decided she wanted out of the club, and hired private eye Danny Boyd to help her find an exit. But "The Group" insisted Danny join their fun instead. And before long, it looked like the only exit Danny could find would be the one all former members took, dark and cold and six feet under!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

New American Library

Signet Books

ISBN 451-Y6871

February 1976

in association with Horwitz Publications, Inc

ISBN 451-AE2014

w/ The Sometime Wife

January 1983

Horwitz Publications

Horwitz Group Books Pty, Ltd

Horwitz Grahame Books Pty, Ltd

Double Carter Brown Series

#16A

1982, 1983

w/The Sometime Wife

House of Sorcery (Horwitz) by Carter Brown

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Sep 302012

Meet Maxine

A hot-blooded tycoon with a perfumed proposition for Danny Boyd,

a private eye who'll do almost anything for the sweet smell of success.

It was a game of dollars and scents with a curvy executive, a cheeky stripper, a string of hefty hanger-on who were playing double dirty. And a perfume formula stolen from House of Sorcery, Inc. It was worth millions, which were besides the point of Maxine Lord, who said she wanted to catch a thief. And called Danny Boyd into her boudoir to explain the problem. It was all there, for fun and profit, if Danny wanted to play by Maxine's rules.

Written by

Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Printing History

Horwitz Publications, Inc.

Numbered Series #139 (1967)

Printed in Hong Kong by Continental Printing Co Ltd

May 1968

Previous post from September 12th 2011 below
House of Sorcery

The Real Boyd by Carter Brown

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Aug 022012

The doorbell rang around ten the next morning when Danny Boyd was finishing his second cup of coffee. He opened the door cautiously and looked into the eyes of Captain Schell. It's a kind of unnerving thing to do at anytime of the day or night and Danny's breakfast skittered around his stomach in a kind of unhinged reaction.

"Explanations" he said.

"I don't need any, Captain" Danny said quickly. "Anything you do is absolutely okay with me. Anything!"

"From you," he said quietly. "Please don't be cute, Boyd, or I will kick you in the crotch then book you for assaulting a police officer."

Printing History

Written by Allen G Yates

Castle Books

Distributed by Horwitz Grahame Books Pty Ltd

ISBN 7255 1736

by agreement with Universal Copyright Company (1959)

Printed by The Dominion Press

Hedge & Bell

Maryborough Victoria 3465

Triva
Danny Boyd's final appearance

So Move The Body by Carter Brown

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Jun 112012

So Move The Body


Signet Edition

The Harassed Heiress

was a real knockout and was about to come into millions of cool cash. How could such a desirable and well endowed doll have any problems? Why had someone voted her "most likely murder victim of the year"? Danny Boyd didn't know the reason, but he was getting a fat retainer and a week as a way out house party to find out. So it was off to Santo Bahia, to be threatened by an apeman, madly pursued by the house nympho, and made the prime suspect in " the case of the roving beach body." Boyd couldn't understand how a seemingly simple case had turned into a jet-set hunt for the skeleton in the closet. With Danny 's frame being measured for its place on the rack.


Horwitz Edition

Printing History

Horwitz Group Books Pty Ltd

Horwitz Publications, Inc.

Numbered Series #175

Stag Publishing Co

ISBN 7255 0261

1973, 1979

New American Library

Signet Books

ISBN 451 T5704

December 1973

Trivia

The 1973 Horwtiz Edition was issued in August 1975.

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