"(although, did Markham: the Case of the Pornographic
Photos,
reprinted as Coward's Kiss originally carry Block's
name?)"
One thing at a time. My edition of MARKHAM ("Markham was
playing
with dynamite in 'THE CASE OF THE PORNOGRAPHIC PHOTOS' - A
SAVAGE
CRIME NOVEL by Lawrence Block"), the 1961 Belmont edition,
says
"Block" on the spine, and has the above quoted lines on the
cover.
I might add the book is "Copyright 1961 by Markham Production
Co."
I suspect it was a work for hire (like my LOST IN SPACE and
CAPTAIN
AMERICA books) over which Larry has no control.
Secondly, I have two editions of COWARD'S KISS -- the Foul
Play Press
and Carroll & Graf editions -- and both credit the
original title as
DEATH PULLS A DOUBLECROSS when it was published in 1961 by
Fawcett
Gold Medal Books. If MARKHAM has been republished under
another
title it's news to me, and it certainly wasn't COWARD'S
KISS.
I am indebted for the news that Westlake was Timothy J.
Culver; I'll
have to look for that. And while I have the first three Sam
Holt
books (which read more like Block than Westlake, oddly
enough), I
missed the fourth. I assume it has "4" in its title, but what
is
that title?
--Ted White
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