My favorite Whittington novel is _A Woman Possessed_,
published by Beacon
Books under the pseudonym Whit Harrison. Despite the soap
opera-ish title,
it's a very hardboiled story. Another Beacon as by Whit
Harrison, _Strip
the Town Naked_, is very good. _The Humming Box_, an Ace
Double, is
excellent. As for Whittington's Gold Medals, they're all
good. I
especially like _Backwoods Tramp_, _Brute in Brass_, _God's
Back Was
Turned_, and _Web of Murder_. There are probably others I'm
forgetting.
_The Devil Has Wings_, which was reprinted by Black Lizard,
is very good.
Whittington's first mystery, _Slay Ride for a Lady_,
originally published
by Harlequin and later reprinted by Berkley, has some great
scenes in it,
though it doesn't all hold together.
You mentioned Whittington's Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel. He
also wrote some
of the U.N.C.L.E. novellas in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Magazine as Robert
Hart Davis. The best of these is "The Ghost Riders Affair".
If you like
Westerns, Whittington's _Saddle the Storm_ is an exceptional
one. And all
of this just scratches the surface of his writings. He's one
of my
all-time favorites, and I've never read a Whittington novel
that wasn't at
the very least entertaining.
James Reasoner
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