Fawcett Crest Gold Medal Paperbacks - Mystery Crime Thrillers GGA

Description: Take your pick from the drop down menu above, and thanks for your interest! All books in Fair to Good+ condition, with light wear to corners, edges, spines and covers. Prices are based on condition & scarcity. Load up on more than one and the savings just keep coming! Books ship via media mail, with tracking numbers. Let me know if you have any questions! I'll just keep listing more and more of these from a vast reservoir. Take a moment to peep our other vintage paperback listings, I am slowly uploading them by publisher and genre. In this listing:The Price of Murder by John D. MacDonald - #D1885 1957The Devil’s Agent by Hans Habe - #S270 1st Printing 1959Case of the Village Tramp by Jonathan Craig - #930 1st Printing 1959The Mark by Charles E. Israel - #S313 1st Printing 1959Lila My Lovely by Dudley Dean - #1014 1st Printing 1960Danger in Paradise by A.S. Fleischman - #295 1st Printing 1953Evil in the Night by Erico Verissimo - #196 1st Printing 1957Slab Happy by Richard S. Prather - #K1264 3rd Printing 1962And The Girl Screamed by Gil Brewer - #147 1st Printing 1956The Goldfish Murders - #118 1950The Killer by Wade Miller - #152 1951Bring Me Another Corpse by Peter Rabe - #864 1st Printing 1959Thieves Fall Out by Cameron Kay - #311 1st Printing 1953Mantrap by Duane Yarnell - #346 2nd Printing 1960Did You Kill Mona Leeds? by John Roeburt - #213 1st Printing 1958Hideaway by Nikki Content - #308 1st Printing 1953Always Leave ‘Em Dying by Richard S. Prather - #413 2nd Printing 1955Brute in Brass by Harry Whittington - #565 1st Printing 1956 Hand Of The Mafia by Jack Baynes - #224 1st Printing 1958 Gay Ghastly Holiday by Sebastian Blayne - #175 1st Printing 1951 The Corpse That Walked by Octavus Roy Cohen - #138 2nd Printing 1951 A Man Of Parts by Vivian Connell - #130 1st Printing 1950 Too Late For Mourning by Richard Foster - #995 1st Printing 1960 Gold Brick Cassie by David Loth - #364 1st Printing 1954 Too Hot To Hold by Day Keene - #931 1st Printing 1959 Bride Of Pendorric by Victoria Holt - #t885 5th Printing 1963 Mistress Of Mellyn by Victoria Holt - #R855 7th Printing 1966 Dark Side Of The Street by Jack Higgins - 1st Printing 1974 Million Dollar Tramp by William Campbell Gault - #361 1st Printing 1960 One Fearful Yellow Eye by John MacDonald - #d1848 1966 Deadly Welcome by John MacDonald - #T2332 1959 Deadly Welcome by John MacDonald - #M2872 1959 Trouble Is My Name by Stephen Marlowe - #627 1st Printing 1957 Homicide Hussy by Atha McGuire - #502 1st Printing 1955 Hell Strip by Lee Richards - #495 1st Printing 1955 Thunder On The Right by Mary Stewart - #d609 2nd Printing 1963 Captive In The Night by Donald Stokes - #126 1st Printing 1956 Hostage For A Hood by Lionel White - #1020 2nd Printing 1960 Listen For The Whisperer by Phyllis A. Whitney - 15th Printing 1927 Window On The Square by Phyllis A. Whitney - #M1420 1962 Seven Tears For Apollo by Phyllis A. Whitney - #d721 1st Printing 1964 The Late Mrs. Five by Richard Wormser - #1063 1st Printing 1960 About the Publisher:Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940). It kicked off with the publication of the bawdy humor magazine Captain Billy's Whiz Bang and expanded into a magazine empire with the first issue of Mechanix Illustrated in the 1920s, followed by numerous titles including True Confessions, Family Circle, Woman's Day, and True. Fawcett Comics, which began operating in 1939, led to the introduction of Captain Marvel. The company became a publisher of paperbacks in 1950 with the opening of Gold Medal Books. Fawcett was also an independent newsstand distributor, and in 1945, the company negotiated a contract with New American Library to distribute their Mentor and Signet titles. This contract prohibited Fawcett from becoming a competitor by publishing their own paperback reprints. In 1949, Roscoe Fawcett wanted to establish a line of Fawcett paperbacks, and he felt original paperbacks would not be a violation of the contract. In order to test a loophole in the contract, Fawcett published two anthologies – The Best of True Magazine and What Today's Woman Should Know About Marriage and Sex – reprinting material from Fawcett magazines not previously published in books. When these books successfully sailed through the contract loophole, Fawcett announced Gold Medal Books, their line of paperback originals. It was a revolutionary turning point in paperback publishing. Fawcett's editor-in-chief was Ralph Daigh, who had been hired by Captain Billy in 1928, and the art director for Gold Medal was Al Allard, who also had been with Fawcett since 1928. Beginning their numbering system at 101, Gold Medal got underway with Alan Hynd's We Are the Public Enemies, the anthology Man Story (102) and John Flagg's The Persian Cat (103). Writing about the demise of pulp magazines in The Dime Detectives, Ron Goulart observed, "Fawcett dealt another blow to the pulps when, in 1950, it introduced its Gold Medal line. What Gold Medal specialized in was original novels. Some were merely sleazy, but others were in a tough, hard-boiled style that seemed somehow more knowing and more contemporary than that of the surviving pulps. Early Gold Medal authors included John D. MacDonald, Charles Williams and Richard S. Prather." Others were Benjamin Appel, Bruno Fischer, David Goodis, Day Keene, Dan J. Marlowe, Wade Miller, Jim Thompson, Lionel White and Harry Whittington.

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Location: Walla Walla, Washington

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