Hello, I'm Richard Madelin. I have a novel 'Careful!'
published by Ig, Brooklyn, NY, also stories in a number of
publications, and on BBC Radio 4. Mark, did you know that
'The Trouble with Harry' was a novel written by Jack Trevor
Story? He was UK writer who doesn't get the credit he
deserves. Prolific, did screen plays, tv, wrote many Sexton
Blakes, 'Live Now Pay Later', always one step away from the
bailiffs. He sold TTWH to Hitchcock for £100, regretted it
and never got any more for it. Later on he wrote a Saturday
column in the Guardian newspaper which was both sad and
hilarious. -- In rara-avis-
l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
>
> "Interestingly, since Benson left the series, the
Fleming estate has
> contracted with a writer named Charlie Higson to
write a series of
YA
> novels about Bond as a high school student ('The
name's Potter.
Harry
> Potter.')"
>
> Charlie Higson, as in Charles Higson? Formerly of
the punk band,
The
> Higsons (with the great song "I Don't Want to Live
with Monkeys"),
he
> wrote, produced and performed in The Fast Show. I
read one of his
crime
> novels, Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen, kind of a
Brit punk take on
> Hitchcock's Trouble with Harry -- very twisted, very
funny. Are
these
> Bond YAs going to be comedy?
>
> Mark
>
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