Greetings, Doug, and thank you for the kind and generous
words. Yes, there was a sequel to Cocaine & Blue Eyes,
and it was called Cinderella After Midnight. (Bibliofile may
have leads on finding old copies.) I also like the notion of
poor Cindy in those moments when she's surrounded by dancing
mice and weird memories. But nobody "saw" the title. The book
was published, stillborn. My editor for both books at the
time was Joseph Kanon, who's done well for himself since then
with his own thrillers. I should add that I was "discovered"
by Ross Macdonald; in fact, he was the first person who ever
suggested I write a detective book. I wrote about my first
encounter with him for January magazine about a year ago.
(Check it out at www.januarymagazine.com/features/zackel.html
As for OJ, he
"discovered" the book on a paperback rack at LAX -- and saw
himself in the lead role, that of an Irish-Catholic PI in San
Francisco. We met; I have photographs, his arm around me; he
produced and starred in the TV movie; the check cleared.
Kevin Burton Smith has some nice things to say about me and
Brennen at his "The Thrilling Detective Web Site", which is
at http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
(Except I don't think of Brennen as a slacker.) Kevin and I
are both Contributing Editors for January magazine. Both of
us think that's cool.
Sorry about using up so much bandwidth, folks.
Best wishes Frederick Zackel
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