Copyright research seems to support the theory that Evans was a real person, but there's no evidence to suggest he wrote any other books. In some cases these were brand new titles as with 1982’s “The Double Cross Squadron” by unknown author William Parker Evans. In my research, Lyle Kenyon Engel packaged previously published novels from Ballantine and Bantam into reprints catering to military history fans and readers. It appears that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bantam Books launched their “Bantam War Book” line of military-fiction paperbacks. It's an atmospheric, entertaining quick read that delivered what the author intended – a sexy, whodunit romp. With Wheeler's obligatory scotch and skirt-chasing, he stumbles his way through a locked room/haunted house mystery permeated with scorned love, jealousy and greed. The questions abound – who is she, how did she get in and is she truly the dead woman's ghost?Īt 120-pages, “The Lady is Transparent” delivers the patented Carter Brown experience. The audio results are surprisingly convincing – there was definitely a mysterious woman in the room. Further, Slocombe was entranced by the folklore and kept a tape recorder running in the room. The supernatural aspect of Carter Brown's novel is The Gray Lady, the ghost of a dead woman who haunts the room where Slocombe was murdered. Wheeler concentrates his efforts on learning more about Martha's dead lover Slocombe and Ellis' arrangement for Martha to marry George. Ellis has allowed his brother Ben to reside there along with Justine, her equally attractive sister Martha, and a planned groomsman for Martha in George Farrow. He learns that wealthy Ellis Harvey owns the home. Wheeler, ignoring the folklore, shoots the lock out and indeed finds Slocombe dead in bed with wounds that appear to have been created by a wild animal.Ĭonfined in the locked room mystery genre tropes, Wheeler interviews all of the home's residents. Justine explains that her family heard a scream from inside, and they feel that “The Gray Lady” killed Henry Slocombe behind the door. Through a spacious network of halls and rooms, Justine leads Wheeler to an immensely large door that's locked from the inside. Wheeler's lust for the woman nearly supersedes his assignment. His welcoming host is Justine Harvey, a beautiful vixen adorned in a skimpy white gown. With a fiery crescendo of thunder and lightning, Wheeler arrives at the sweeping Gothic mansion in the forest. There's been a murder on an eerie locale called Old Canyon Road at the top of Bald Mountain. Lieutenant Al Wheeler becomes a ghostbusting investigator after receiving a call from the county sheriff. “The Lady is Transparent”, published in 1962 by Signet, adheres to that consistently fun formula. Occasionally his work would dabble in supernatural themes that were easily debunked and solved in the book's finale. His stirring, sultry formula starred three interchangeable investigators in Al Wheeler, Danny Boyd and Rick Holman. OL4164928W Page_number_confidence 92.31 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210622172117 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 436 Scandate 20210619110643 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 2259004881 Tts_version 4.Carter Brown, real name Alan Yates, was an English-born Australian writer who authored over 300 short mysteries. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:02:26 Boxid IA40140611 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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