✍ Scribed by Carter Brown; Jeremy Yates
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Al Wheeler was Carter Brown's most popular mystery series. These three novels have been reprinted from their original Australian editions. The first two were originally revised for U.S. publication as The Body and The Bombshell, but Chorine has never been in print in the U.S. before.
NO LAW AGAINST ANGELS
In which Lt. Al Wheeler investigates the murder of two young ladies— —both of whom worked at the Haven of Rest mortuary —both of whom had a tattoo on their upper shoulder in the shape of a dollar sign which turns into a snake —and both of whom worked as part-time call-girls for the mysterious fellow known as Snake Lannigan, a man no one has ever seen.
DOLL FOR THE BIG HOUSE
In which Lt. Al Wheeler is reassigned to the Eight Precinct under Captain Bligh in order to— —find Lili Hertz, whose sister has reported her missing —track her to the Big House of Absolem Kirch, despotic owner of a newspaper empire and the man behind a lot of dirty politics —and crack the kidnapping ring that provides Kirch with the young girls he keeps in his mansion against their will.
CHORINE MAKES A KILLING
In which Lt. Al Wheeler turns in his badge to become a private investigator for a lawyer’s firm in order to— —investigate an open-and-shut murder case involving Walter Byrne, friend of the lawyer and now married to the lawyer’s ex-wife —determine just who really did kill the chorus girl, who was also Byrne’s mistress —figure out who is trying to kill Byrne’s wife, Myra, while fending off the advances of the man’s sexy daughter.
Uploader's Note: I can take no credit for this one. It was converted to ebook by the Carter Brown Preservation Society. We're seeing a number of US-unreleased Carter Brown titles bubbling up lately! Exciting times! Enjoy!
This is a seedy pulp detective novel from the American Midcentury. It was considered "racy" in its day, but I suspect modern readers will find it quite tame and even quaint by current standards. Still, I'm flagging it for sex and violence, on principle. You may find the authorial or character voices and deeds less than enlightened by modern standards; this is simply how this era of pulp detective novels worked, and part of the trope.
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