W.R. Burnett died on April 25, 1982 of heart failure, in
Santa Monica, CA. I'm not trying to contradict, just clarify.
As Silverburg mentioned, "All this was more than 40 years
ago."
George the Librarian
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Robert Elkin
<rictusaporia@...> wrote:
>
> The following is from the desk of RS
himself:
>
> After Burnett died, I was handed a vast mass of
almost
> incoherent manuscript by my agent (his agent too)
and
> asked to carve a novel out of it. The result was
THE
> WINNING OF MICKEY FREE, which Bantam published.
There
> may have been a second Mickey Free novel too. But
I
> wasn't ghosting the books -- just putting
the
> disorderly manuscript into publishable
form.
>
> I remember being involved with another Burnett
book
> called ROUND THE CLOCK AT VOLARI'S, which I may
have
> edited in the same way as the Mickey Free stuff,
or
> perhaps it was an incomplete novel that I
finished.
> All this was more than 40 years ago, so I don't
have
> really sharp memories of my role on this
one.
>
> RS
>
>
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