> Back when it was on, I read a couple of
novelizations of the Robert
> Wagner TV vehicle It Takes A Thief. Could I possibly
remember correctly
> that at least one of them was written by Gil Brewer?
Damn, wish I had
> held onto them. Or did he write some Man from UNCLE
books; I'm pretty
> sure Michael Avallone did.
Yes, Gil Brewer wrote the novels based on It Takes A Thief,
either two or three, don't recall for sure how many there
were. I read all of them when they were new, but that was
before I knew who Gil Brewer was. Avallone wrote the first
Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel and both of the Girl From
U.N.C.L.E. novels. Harry Whittington wrote the second Man
From U.N.C.L.E. paperback and several of the novellas
published in the U.N.C.L.E. digest magazine.
> I enjoyed the "original suspense novel" (as it says
on the cover, but
> it's actually three short stories with slight
transitions added between
> them), 77 Sunset Strip. I haven't read the Johnny
Staccato novelization
> I have by Frank Boyd, who someone said is really
Frank Kane.
>
> And didn't Stuart Kaminsky do several Rockford
novels a few years ago,
> long after the series, but, I think, before the
handful of made-for-TV
> movies?
Yep, Boyd was really Kane, and Kaminsky wrote Rockford
novels. I've never read any of them.
James Reasoner
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