Mark asks about the books NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and BUILD MY
GALLOWS HIGH. In the late 80s Maxim Jakubowski edited a trade
paperback series for Simon and Schuster called Blue Murder,
which included those two titles. The gimmick was that all of
the books in the series had been made into noir or noirish
films. Maxim wrote an introduction for each book detailing
the author's career. Among the other titles were William
McGivern's THE BIG HEAT, Charles Williams's THE DIAMOND
BIKINI, Gil Brewer's 13 FRENCH STREET and THE RED SCARF, and
Woolrich's REAR WINDOW. Most importantly, the series
introduced me to Thornburg's CUTTER AND BONE and Goodis's THE
BURGLAR. All of the books were worthwhile reads and the cover
treatments were nicely done; I've managed to collect most of
the series and still see them out there in various stores. I
noticed a couple of weeks ago, for example, that Black Orchid
in New York had various titles in their used bins.
Pelecanos
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