Juri Nummelin wrote:
>
>I posted this query once and try it again now: There
are three
>P.I. books from the fifties about Neal Cotten by one
Sam S. Taylor. What
>I want to know is if this is the same Sam Taylor who
wrote scripts for
>Harold Lloyd and other comedians from the twenties
on.
Interesting that you should ask this Juri!
I bought a stack of '50's Signet pb's from a U.S. dealer a
couple of months ago and included was Sam S. Taylor's NO HEAD
FOR HER PILLOW. I'd never heard of Taylor before, and Kevin
Burton Smith's usually informative Thrilling Detective
website has no info on Neal Cotten, so I slipped it to the
bottom of the pile, but for some reason started reading it
yesterday. Perhaps it was the caption above the title that
reads REDHEADS - RACKETS - And MURDER! I mean, how could any
rara avian resist!
I haven't finished it yet, but I'm enjoying it greatly. Neal
Cotten is obviously a Marlowe knock-off, but he's interesting
enough to sustain interest, with plenty of humour mixed with
the action.
The brief bio on the back cover states that Taylor, quote:
has written many radio scripts and magazine stories, end
quote, so he could well be Harold Lloyd's scripter.
I'm assuming that this novel is the second of the three, as
SLEEP NO MORE, is mentioned on the back cover. Do you know
the title of the third?
- Paul
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