I've heard of James Loftus. Jack O'Connell didn't just make
him up. There's virtually nothing about Loftus online, but I
did find this page which has a scan of one of his
covers.
http://www.geocities.com/paperbackbooks59/loftus.htm
Al
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Ribic" <
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12:51 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: James Loftus
> I'm sorry folks but the O'Connell article is indeed
a hoax, even if it
> wasn't published on April 1. "James Loftus" was in
reality the
> Australian poet Ern O'Malley, who wrote many ersatz
hardboiled novels
> set in the US, although O'Malley himself had never
left Australia at
> that time. These books were published by the
Cleveland Press and
> Horwitz, (publishers, respectively, of the "Carter
Brown" and "Larry
> Kent" novels) mostly under the name "Pete Collins".
Later, he sold some
> PBO's to the US but none to Gold Medal, rather more
down market lines
> like Midwood. One of these was made into the
never-released post-noir
> film, Dark is the Night. The (very) few critics who
read his work in the
> 50's and 60's said things like - "don't bother -
stick to Mickey
> Spillane". He gave up writing in the 60's to become
firstly, a wrestling
> announcer, then later a used car salesman and then
finally a Liberal
> Party senator of the NSW state parliament. While in
office he was
> involved in a bribery scandal and died while serving
his prison
> sentence.
> I hope this has clarified things.
>
> Rene
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Denton" <
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> To: "RARA-AVIS" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:13 PM
> Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: James Loftus
>
>
> > On 13 April 2004, Mario Taboada
wrote:
> >
> > : Ah, Loftus, a cult classic like Cedric Titus,
Herbert Quain
> > : and Pierre Menard.
> >
> > Didn't he hang out with Jacques Debierue in
Paris, back when?
> >
> >
> > Bill
> > --
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> lector.
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