Thanks. At least a serach on "Zekial Marko" shows up some
more information--it seems he went on to write scripts for
the Rockford Files and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. I'll have
to pick up ONCE A THIEF (which was also a French film with
Alain Delon).
Max
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Juri Nummelin"
<juri.nummelin@p...> wrote:
> Re: John Trinian.
>
> John Trinian was a working name of Zekial Marko. He
was a former
> convicted criminal who started publishing when he
got out of jail
> in the early sixties. His first novel was under his
real name
> (Scratch a Thief, Fawcett Gold Medal 1961, also as
Once a Thief),
> after which he started using the pseudonym. As
Trinian, he
> published five or six novels with various paperback
houses, such
> as Pyramid.
>
> Scratch a Thief is an excellent novel, you should
try it. That's
> the only book I've read by him, sadly, so I can't
comment on the
> others. I remember Bill Crider commenting on Trinian
before.
>
> Juri
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