On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, JIM DOHERTY wrote:
> LESLIE WHITE
> The earliest example I've found of a LA area cop
who
> broke into fiction.
> He wrote a book of non-fiction memoirs, ME
DETECTIVE, and
> also wrote a number of short stories about LA
cops,
> both for the pulps and for slicks like
COLLIER'S.
The stories I've read from White haven't had police lead
characters. There were couple of stories about Avenger-like
figure called Black Hawk
(if I remember correctly), which appeared either in Detective
Tales or in Dime Detective.
> He
> wrote two full-length cop novels, HARNESS BULL
and
> HOMICIDE in the late '30s.
"Harness Bull" was made into a film in 1953, as "Vice Squad".
It was directed by Arnold Laven (who later made at least one
Matt Helm movie). I think "Harness Bull" was reprinted at
that time as "Vice Squad".
> It's been suggested that a real-life case
> that White worked (and wrote about in his
> autobiography) was the inspiration for
the
> long-forgotten case Phil Marlowe cites in THE
HIGH
> WINDOW, when he's explaining to two LAPD
detectives
> why he doesn't trust cops.
This one I didn't know. Interesting!
Juri
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