Frank Salamone (FSalamone@Iona.edu)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:55:56 -0200
Thanks, Bob,
That was quick and informative. I was glad to know about the
other books these friends had written.
Best wishes,
Frank
james.doherty@gsa.gov
wrote:
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AT internet on 12/22/99 08:31 AM EST
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> cc: (bcc: James W.
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> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Wade Miller
>
> Frank wrote:
>
> "Does Anyone out there have any biographical
information on Wade Miller?"
>
> "Wade Miller" is the joint pseudonym of two close
friends in San Diego who
> wrote mysteries in the post-war era. Their real
names were Robert Wade and
> William Miller. As "Wade Miller" they are best-known
for the Max Thursday
> series of PI novels, widely regarded as one of the
best post-war PI series.
> They also wrote as "Dale Wilmer," and, at least
once, as "Bob Wade and Bill
> Miller." The best-known pseudonym aside from "Wade
Miller" is "Whit
> Masterson," under which they wrote *Badge of Evil*,
which became the film
> *Touch of Evil*. After Miller died in the early
'60s, Wade carried on
> alone under the Masterson pseudonym. The "Masterson"
persona is most
> asscoiated with police novels. *A Hammer in His
Hand* was one of the very
> first procedurals to feature a policewoman as the
protagonist on the trail
> of a serial killer, predating *The Silence of the
Laambs* over twenty
> years. On his own, using the "Masterson" name, Wade
wrote *711 - Officer
> Needs Help* which became the David Jansen film
*Warning Shot*, and a really
> fine, underrated cop novel called *Play Like You're
Dead*, which prefigures
> the problem of child abduction by non-custodial
parents.
>
> I met Wade once at a San Diego Bouchercon. He was
receiving the Life
> Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of
America. In addition to
> the occasional novel, he was writing a mystery
review column for one of the
> local San Diego papers.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
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