In an article speculating on whether or not Donald Bain had
ghostwritten Margaret Truman's novels
(www.weeklystandard.com/Content/
Public/Articles/000/000/001/886tuxmk.asp), Jon L Breen
wrote:
"Employing a ghostwriter on a work of fiction is never more
dubious than when the putative author really is a writer.
Brett Halliday (creator of Mike Shayne), Leslie Charteris
(creator of the Saint), and Ernest Tidyman (creator of Shaft)
all turned to ghosts to carry on the exploits of their famous
characters."
How many Shaft novels were there? I have three: Shaft, Shaft
Amongst the Jews and Shaft's Big Score. All three are
credited to Tidyman, though only the first two are
copyrighted by him. The third is copyrighted by the studio
that made the film of that title. I'm guessing that means it
was a novelization, perhaps (probably?) not by Tidyman.
Also, I haven't read any of these. Are they any good?
Mark
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