Juri is right.
I can add that apparently, as Bill Crider remembers rightly,
Tracy wrote historical novels (from the 50's to the 70's) but
not stopping his HB/Noir novels production. Giff Speer's
series benefits of a proximity effect, I think (due to the
period of publishing closer to contemporary), but Tracy was
also the author of some very good crime novels having racism
as subject.
To remember: HOW SLEEPS THE BEAST (1937)wherein is one of the
most horrifying and realistic description of the lynching of
a Negro man. A recommended book. THE HATED ONE (1963) with a
Negro female accused of murder; I remember it more vaguely,
but it was a good read.
He used also the pseudo of Roger Fuller, but mainly for films
and TV novelisation, I think. He was a ghost writer, but I
could never find for who and where.
He of course wrote quite a bunch of short stories, in the
pulps ( but also for more reputed magazines). He was born in
1905.
E.Borgers Hard-boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
Polar Noir http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir
--- Juri Nummelin <
jurnum@utu.fi> wrote:
> Dick Lochte wrote:
>
> > I see that there's a long story by Don Tracy
in
> ORANGE PULP. I don't recall
> > any mention of his Giff Speer series
(Pocket
> Books 60s and 70s) on this
> > list. But mention should be made. They are top
of
> the line hardboiled
> > novels. "Look Down On Her Dying" is one of
the
> better entries, but they're
> > all good. Tracy is very much the equal of
Donald
> Hamilton and has the same
> > sensibilities -- the pro's approach to
handling
> tough problems. Does anybody
> > know what happened to Tracy? And is the
ORANGE
> PULP story new?
>
> It cant' be, since Tracy died in 1976. Tracy
wrote
> in 1934 the classic
> "Criss-Cross" on which the Robert Siodmak film
of
> the same name and Steven
> Soderbergh's "Underneath" are based.
>
> Juri
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