Yes. According to Nolan's _The Black Mask Boys_,
this five-parter was Cain's first contribution to Black Mask,
which
(as were many BM serials) was later published as a
novel.
I've filled in as best I can from Nolan, on Cain's film work
and Black
Mask stories (I think someone mentioned a couple of non BM
stories
earlier in the thread).
[Perhaps Bill can pull it all together and add Paul Cain to
the r-a
bibliographies?]
> Peter Ruric was apparently his pen name as
> screenwriter. From what I understand his career
was
> more for Hollywood than for book
publishing.
> Fast One Was adapted by himself for screen, under the
title:
> Gambling Ship (Paramount, 1933) with Cary
Grant.
> He collaborated to the scripts of:
> Black Cat (1934)
which starred Bela Lugosi & Boris Karloff
Cain also co-wrote
Affairs of a Gentleman (Universal, 1934)
and is credited with:
Dark Sands (1938)
> Twelve crowded Hours (Universal, 1939)
The Night of January 16th (1941)
> Grand Central Murder (MGM 1942)
> Mademoiselle Fifi (RKO, 1944. Directed by Robert
Wise)
and his last Hollywood credit is
Alias A Gentleman (MGM, 1948)
Apparently Cain also worked on seven scripts for MGM during a
six month
contract in 1943.
Nolan doesn't say what these scripts were, however. (Maybe
the IMDB can
shed some light?).
There is also some TV work to take into account.
****
Cain stories in The Black Mask:
"Fast One" (March, 1932)*
"Lead Party" (April, 1932)*
"Black" (May, 1932)&
"Velvet" (June, 1932)*
"Parlour Trick" (July, 1932)
"The Heat" (August, 1932)*
"The Dark" (September, 1932)*
"Red 71" (December, 1932)
"One, Two, Three" (May, 1933)
"Murder Done in Blue" (June, 1933)&&
"Pigeon Blood", (November, 1933)
"Hunch" (March, 1934)
"Trouble Chaser" (April, 1934)&&&
"Chinaman's Chance" (September, 1935)
"Death Song" (January, 1936)
"Pineapple" (March, 1936)
"Dutch Treat" (December, 1936)
------------------------
* republished as the novel _Fast One_ (Doubleday: NY,
1933).
& reprinted in Maxim Jakubowski, ed., _The Mammoth Book
of Pulp Fiction_
(Robinson: London, 1996).
&& reprinted as "Gundown" in William F. Nolan, _The
Black Mask Boys_
(Morrow: NY, 1983).
&&& reprinted in Jack Adrian and Bill Pronzini,
eds, _Hard Boiled_
(Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1995).
---------------------------
My copy of _Fast One_ blurbs lots of No Exit books, including
_Seven
Slayers_
Unfortunaely, it doesn't list the seven stories included in
that
collection.
ED
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