The Girl from Outer Space by Carter Brown

What happens next could be great or terrible, depending on how well you distinguish subtle shades of color. We'll probably read another, because we have a few. So maybe his success isn't so strange after all. But on the other hand it's fast, sometimes funny, and hits the right notes for detective novels. On one level it's amazing Carter Brown sold something like 120,000,000 books, because his work is not special. It certainly seems that way when Boyd meets his client's loopy, danger obsessed little sister, but of course matters soon begin to look far more complicated than they seemed at first. The father, when confronted by Boyd, says that insanity runs in the family and his daughter is paranoid and probably nuts. Yates's franchise sleuth Danny Boyd, who's hired by a woman named Martha Hazelton who thinks her father is killing off his children-with her next in line-in order to avoid losing his dead wife's inheritance. This one stars Carter Brown's, aka Alan G. She was a favorite of theirs-we've seen her on four covers, including this one, and we've speculated that they're all unlicensed, for reasons discussed here. They'd be hard to find, because we don't keyword for knives, so here are some links to get you there: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.Īs usual the Aussie publishing company Horwitz has used a film star on one of its book covers-this time German goddess Elke Sommer on the front of 1959's Terror Comes Creeping. If you're super interested in this particular motif we have plenty more examples in the archives.

These do not represent the best (as if we could decide something like that), or our favorites, but merely some interesting ones we've come across of late. There are many, many paperback fronts featuring knives-we mean hundreds-but we decided to stop ourselves at thirty-two today. and British offerings, you'll see covers from France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. It's a funny cover because we don't think we'd grab our throats if we got stabbed in the spine, but let's hope we never find out.

Above you see Harry Bennett art of a poor fella getting a knife from nowhere.

Today we have for your pleasure a collection of vintage paperback covers featuring characters on both the giving and receiving ends of knives-or knifelike tools such as icepicks.

The Girl from Outer Space by Carter Brown