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>From: Laurent Lehmann
>Sent: Thursday, October 16, 1997 2:27 PM
>To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Henry / Frank Kane
>
>On 16 Oct 97 at 8:25, Frank Glenewinkel
wrote:
>
>> Amongst other writers James mentioned Henry Kane
and Frank Kane.
>> Where these really two different
writers?
>> I am not sure where I have heard it but I was
somehow under the
>> impression that it were two pseudonyms for a
single ghostwriter.
>
> Frank Kane (1912 or 1919 ? - 1968) wrote 37 novels.
He created PI Johnny
>Liddell in 1944 for a pulp, and wrote 29 novels about
him. He also wrote
>novelizations for _The Line-Up_ (I don't know this
series; anybody care
>to enlighten me ?) and _Johnny Staccato_ (using the
pen name Frank Boyd).
>He also wrote for the radio: The Shadow, The Fat Man
(don't know this
>series either; was it about a PI ?), Gangbusters,...
and for TV : Mike
>Hammer, S.A.7, The Investigators.
>
> Henry Kane (1918 - ? ) was initially a lawyer. He
wrote 60 novels. About
>30 of those starred PI Peter Chambers. Other
short-lived serial
>characters were PIs Marla Trent and McGregor. He also
wrote the movie
>adaptations of McBain's _Cop Hater_ and _The
Mugger_.
>
> Peter Chambers was also the pen name of British
writer Dennis Phillips
>(1924 - ? ). He first used the alias Peter Chester for
five novels, then
>wrote 32 books about US PI Mark Preston under this
name.
>
> All of these authors wrote pretty standard '50s PI
stories (the 'generic
>PI' Pronzini refered to), and seem all but forgotten
these days, except
>for a handful of PI aficionados like me :-) . IMHO,
Henry Kane was the
>best of the three. Are there any other forgotten
long-series writers like
>those ? Gary ?
>
>Laurent
>____
>"When you're slapped, you'll take and like
it"
> Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon,
>from Hardboiled by P. Thompson & S.
Usukawa.
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