Dear Claus,
No, CADILLAC COWBOY is not a Dan
Fortune. It was the first of what I hoped would be a new
series featuring a hero who may or may not be actually named
Ford Morgan---Dan was getting a bit old, and the Fortune
books were earning less money. It started as an attempt to
write a thriller but ended up being pretty much the same as a
Dan Fortune. I started another thriller and finally completed
it this year and hope to have it published soon.)
But Dan kept going in short stories, and I am now ready to
bring him back, in novels maybe along with Morgan who is also
The Irishman from THE IRISHMAN'S HORSE!
As for German publication, Ullstein stayed with me all the
way to RED ROSA, as you said. With RED ROSA they upgraded me
to trade paper and paid a relatively large advance. But
Ullstein had been bought some years before by a right winger,
and, maybe because they paid more, he must have actually read
RED ROSA and that was the end of my Ullstein career. Which
means I still have 5 Collins novels never published in
Germany.
Of the Mark Sadlers, I think only DEADLY INNOCENTS, the last,
was published in Germany, and it is the weakest of the
Sadlers. The first four are the best. Goldman published most
of the John Crowe novels, and Heyne published some William
Ardens (Adult books featuring industrial spy Kane Jackson.
All my 3Investigator juveniles were published in Germany, of
course.)
Best,
Dennis-Michael, etc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "kerkhoc" <
Claus_Kerkhoff@web.de> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 03,
2005 1:54 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Dan Fortune series
Mr. Lynds, Welcome and thanks for joining this list.
I'm also a big fan of your Dan Fortune novels. They were
published in Germany up to "Red Rosa". Most of your novels
under your pseudonyms Mark Sadler, John Crowe, and Carl
Dekker have been also published. I have enjoyed them very
well not knowing that they were written by the same person.
Does "The Cadillac Cowboy" really belong to the Fortune
series? I remember Langford "Ford" Morgan & Roy Shepherd
to be the main characters, aren´t they?
Best regards Claus
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