Didn't Dennis Lynds (maybe even Gayle) write Mike Shayne
novels? I once worked decades ago for a NYC magazine
publisher that included The Saint Magazine in its stable. Of
course Charteris never wrote a word of it or edited any of
it. I did meet him once when he visited the office.
Tim
On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:50 AM,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> In an article speculating on whether or not Donald
Bain had
> ghostwritten
> Margaret Truman's novels
(www.weeklystandard.com/Content/
> Public/Articles/000/000/001/886tuxmk.asp), Jon L
Breen wrote:
>
> "Employing a ghostwriter on a work of fiction is
never more dubious
> than
> when the putative author really is a writer. Brett
Halliday
> (creator of
> Mike Shayne), Leslie Charteris (creator of the
Saint), and Ernest
> Tidyman (creator of Shaft) all turned to ghosts to
carry on the
> exploits
> of their famous characters."
>
> How many Shaft novels were there? I have three:
Shaft, Shaft Amongst
> the Jews and Shaft's Big Score. All three are
credited to Tidyman,
> though only the first two are copyrighted by him.
The third is
> copyrighted by the studio that made the film of that
title. I'm
> guessing that means it was a novelization, perhaps
(probably?) not by
> Tidyman.
>
> Also, I haven't read any of these. Are they any
good?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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