Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter E

 Barney Slade, Barye Phillips, Carter Brown, Crime Fiction Alphabet, Danny Boyd, Ron Lesser  Comments Off
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.
 Posted by at 4:34 am

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter D

 Barye Phillips, Carter Brown, Danny Boyd  Comments Off
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
 Posted by at 7:33 pm

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2013: The Letter B

 Al Wheeler, Barye Phillips, Carter Brown, Crime Fiction Alphabet, Robert McGinnis  Comments Off
Apr 162013
 
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
 Posted by at 5:36 am

Paperback 540: Meet Morocco Jones / Jack Baynes (Crest 1957)

 1957, Barye Phillips, Bed, Boobs, Crest, Crime Fiction, Jack Baynes, Morocco Jones, MWG, Syndicate, Uncredited  Comments Off
Jun 182012
 
Paperback 540: Crest 195 (PBO, 1957)

Title: Meet Morocco Jones (in the Case of the Syndicate Hoods)
Author: Jack Baynes
Cover artist: maaaaaybe Barye Phillips (uncredited)

Yours for: $15


Crest195.MeetMJ_0001
Best things about this cover:
  • Who's the private dick who takes advice from the half-naked lady on his shoulder? "Morocco Jones!" Ya damn right.
  • "Morocco, I'm hungry" "Shut up, Shoulder Girl. Can't you see I'm stalking syndicate hoods?"
  • There is so much Fail happening here. Title fail (the putative title is actually just a lead-in/tagline, whereas the actual title is represented as a weak little subtitle). Art fail (where's the rest of my painting, Captain Stingy McWatercolor?!). Hyperbole fail ("The best book that's ever been written or will ever be written!").


Crest195bc.MeetMJ

Best things about this back cover:
  • "Helluva" is simply a great "word."
  • Morocco Jones "takes his place among the heroes of tough-guy fiction." Notice they don't say which place. Kind of backing off from that front-cover braggadocio, aren't you, copywriters?
  • Is there such a thing as "the edge of lightning?" If so, can it be said to be "sharp?" If the answer to either of these is 'no,' can Morocco Jones' mind be said to really 'exist' at all? (philosophers will come to know this as the "Morocco Jones Dilemma")
  • "And whose morals ... well, he liked to masturbate in public so ... yeah, the less said the better."

Page 123~
"Who are they, Carson?" Thurm asked gently.
"Skull Kronsky, Duke White, and Solly Cogen."
"Bad, bad boys," Thurm said softly. As bad as some of the Syndicate killers. Lije is not going to like this, Carson."
Jack Baynes, fresh off a correspondence course in "Naming Your Fictional Characters," goes berserk. P.S. I call dibs on the pseudonym 'Skull Kronsky.'

~RP

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Paperback 521: The Man With the Golden Gun / Ian Fleming (Signet P2735)

 1966, Barye Phillips, Ian Fleming, James Bond, MWG, Palm trees, Redhead, Signet, Trains  Comments Off
Apr 282012
 
Paperback 521: Signet P2735 (1st ptg, 1966)

Title: The Man with the Golden Gun
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover artist: Barye Phillips

Yours for: $6


SigP2735.GoldGun
Best things about this cover:
  • James Bond subdues the 50-Foot Woman ... with sexy results.
  • Damn the '60s, with their "words" crowding out all the luscious artistry. I can't believe the great Barye Phillips' work has been reduced (literally and metaphorically) to this. It's like his art is being chewed by the bloody fangs of the words, while also being attacked by a golden word-buzzsaw.
  • Her ass is so hot it's literally steaming.


SigP2735bc.GoldGun
Best things about this back cover:
  • NOTHING!
  • Ah, "bordello," you seldom-used, beautiful word.
  • "Aided by his sex-galore confederate" is a brilliant phrase, I'll give the copy writer that.

Page 123~

Amused by his thoughts, Bond's right hand came out of his pocket and lit a cigarette for him, quietly and obediently. It had stopped going off chasing rabbits on its own.

I'm kind of stuck on how a "hand" gets "amused."

~RP

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