On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, James Reasoner wrote:
> I've been lurking again for a while, but I have to
respond to this one. I
> know Too Friendly, Too Dead is by Dennis Lynds
(expanded from his first
> Shayne story in MSMM, "The Friendly Corpse"). I
*think* Lynds also wrote
> The Corpse That Never Was, but I'm not sure about
that one.
This is interesting. Did Lynds write any other Hallidays? You
wrote them too, didn't you, James?
> Davis Dresser's
> other ghosts prior to Robert Terrall taking over the
Shayne series full-time
> were Ryerson Johnson and Helen Kasson.
I've been wondering if Johnson is the same guy who wrote
westerns under the name Marvin Ryerson.
> By the way, all the posts about James Atlee Philips
have prompted me to go
> get some of the Joe Gall books off my shelves to
read. I think Bill Crider
> mentioned Philips's first book, The Inheritors,
which was reprinted in
> paperback under the title The Naked Year. One of the
first books about the
> underbelly of high society in Texas.
I just remembered that in "The Irish Beauty Contract" Joe
Gall says that he didn't believe in the Bay of Pigs attack.
Richard Moore pointed out that Phillips's brother, David, had
been involved in this. I wonder whether the two brothers
quarreled about this.
Juri
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