In a message dated 7/29/03 4:02:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:27:24 +0200
From: "Luca Conti" <
luca.conti8@tin.it>
Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Edwin Lanham, booking purchases
& Bob Hope
>I know Lanham published other
>novels but I know nothing about him. Any opinions
out there?
For a biographical sketch on Lanham you might try
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fla58.html
Best, Luca
Luca Conti
>>
The link leads to a fascinating bio--grandfather a governor
of Texas, expat in the Paris of the 20s and 30s and acclaimed
mainstream novels prior to his mystery career. One of his
proletariate period novels has been reprinted by the
University of Oklahoma and I look forward to reading it. The
mystery I am reading (SLUG IT SLAY) is quite good and I will
report on it later in detail.
The link oddly does not mention that a Lanham story was the
basis of the movie "The Senator was Indiscreet" with a
screenplay by Charles MacArthur and directed by George
Kaufman and starring William Powell in 1947. Another story
about the same time was filmed starring Carole Landis.
Quite a career and I will report on SLUG IT SLAY and other
novels purchased through Abebooks very soon.
Richard Moore
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