Ed,
Re your question below:
"The TV tie-in books then go back to 1959-60. Was this
concept used when TV became popular, earlier in the 1950s?
Just curious."
Itr predates television, in fact. Whitman, a midwest
publisher that printed quite a few TV-tie-in books for the
juvenile market in the '50's and '60's, published radio show
tie-in books in the '30's and '40's.
Grossett & Dunlap, a hardcover publishr specializing in
reprints, would often do "movie editions" of books that had
been filmed, with stills from the film on the cover and, if
the film used a different title, the title of the book
changed. Hence, there are editions of FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
that were published under the title MURDER, MY SWEET, with
Dick Powell on the cover, and editions of THE HIGH WINDOW,
published under the title THE BRASHER DOUBLOON (ironically
the title Chandler wanted to use) with George Montgomery on
the cover.
There's even a book about crime-solving photojournalist Jack
Casey, by an author OTHER than George Harmon Coxe, that
specifically ties in, not to Coxe's books and stories, but to
the radio show CASEY
- CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER that was loosely based on those books
ans stories.
JIM DOHERTY
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