Death Spins the Platter

eath Spins the Platter (June 1962)

Every time he spun a platter on "The King's Session," gold came out: TV earnings, returns on his secret holdings in recording companies, the old payola that some bright young men think only their rightful due. Tutter was a gay young man-around-town. He was also involved in some hanky-panky with his pretty blond assistant, Lola Arkwright. And then the roof started to cave in. Senate Investigating Committees. The angry emergence of the wife who Lola never knew existed. The canceling of his network contract. Poor Tutter, it looked like he was going to lose everything. Even his life!

Tutter King had it made.

Death Spins the Platter - cover pocket book edition, Pocket Book N° 6126, June 1962.

Death Spins the Platter - cover pocket book edition, Signet 451-T5507, June 5. 1973.

Death Spins the Platter - cover pocket book edition, Signet 451-Y7929, 1973 (3rd)

Death Spins the Platter - dust cover Victor Gollancz edition, 1975

Dead Man's Tale/ Death Spins the Platter - cover pocket book edition, Signet Double Mystery, 451-E9904, 1981.

Death Spins the Platter - Ulverscroft Large Print edition Thorpe Publishing, 1976

Death Spins the Platter - cover audiobook Blackstone Audio, Inc., read by Mark Peckham, December 1. 2014

Death Spins the Platter - cover MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, August 11, 2015

Ghostwritten by Richard Deming. Despite stating making the book just acceptable this first contribution was a good example of a trimly understated detective novel. Deming handles the social context of the early Sixties and the emotional crises of the characters as deftly as the plot. (Nevins)

Critic Anthony Boucher was more lenient for this second Queen bylined paperback calling it "a simple and straightforward whodunit... a good deal better than his first, if still without the a hint of the pyrotechnic intricacy of hardcover Queen." (August 26. 1962)

"Death Spins the Platter" was first published in "Star Weekly" in two parts starting August 4. 1962 (First part).

Above: Death Spins the Platter was first published in Star Weekly in two parts starting August 4. 1962

Death spins the platter Translations:
Czech: Smrť krúti platňu
(aka Smrt v televizním studiu)
Dutch/Flemish: De dood aan de draaitafel
German: Abschiedsvorstellung (aka Riskante Show)
Finnish: Kuolema vaihtaa levyä
Greek: Φόνος στις 45 στροφές
Italian: Alta infedeltà
Portugese: A Morte Gira O Disco
Spanish: La muerte gira en un disco
(aka La Muerte Va Al Circo)
(aka La Muerte Gira el Disco)

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