A little while ago someone was asking about Homes/Mainwaring,
whether he'd written any other novels worth reading aside
from the classic BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH (made into the seminal
film noir OUT OF THE PAST with Bob Mitchum). Unfortunately I
haven't read any of his other books but I thought the
following info may be of interest to the person asking: under
the name Mainwaring (I forget which one was his real name) he
wrote a lot of Hollywood screenplays, including the
screenplay to OUT OF THE PAST, which you probably knew. Today
I just rented a copy of INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS
(considered to be an SF/horror/film noir hybrid by many
people) & discovered that Mainwaring wrote this
screenplay also. He has a good short story, again under the
Mainwaring name, in the Oxford University Press anthology
HARD BOILED (an excellent anthology & one that still
seems to be in print, at least I saw a copy of the paperback
in a shop just today).Hopefully some of this info is new
& of interest to the person who enquired, or
others.
Rene
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