Bill Bowers said:
>>Can't lay hands on my copy of "The
Red-Hot
Typewriter" at this moment, but, iirc, "The Executioners" was
the result of a bet that JDM had with McKinley Kantor: That
he (JDM) couldn't write a
"mainstream bestseller" in less than thirty days....
>>I don't know if Kantor paid up, but I'd say
JDM
won that particular wager...<<
Was *The Executioners* a best seller before even the second
movie?
Just asking.
I always thought that JDMs first best seller was some thing
about recovering wetlands for profit. In which he delivered a
memoroable line--here paraphrased:
"If any other creature was doing to this planet what man is
doing, we would consider it the greatest plague in the
history of civilization."
Jack
===== http://JackBludis.com
Hollywood Mysteries of the Early Fifties at Amazon.com and
BN.com
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