Of the three references I find in the index to DEADLY, Block
only says he took the idea from "another writer" but "with
permission". I suspect you're right, Mark, in that it was
Westlake. The two pseudonyms and SO WILLING are not
indexed.
Ed
---
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> Ed wrote:
>
> "I was reading Larry Block's TELLING LIES and ran
across his
> revelation
> that he wrote three novels with Donald Westlake (p.
69). Block
> goes on
> to say they were soft porn books, but he gives no
title or
> publisher."
>
> At least one of them is So Willing by Sheldon Lord
and Alan
> Marshall. I
> haven't had time to get the the Library of Congress
Copyright
> Card
> Catalog yet, but I'll look for the others when I
do.
>
> Was it also in Telling Lies that Block revealed that
the
> currently
> discussed Deadly Honeymoon (of which I'm also not a
fan) was
> based on an
> idea of Westlake's. After Westlake decided not to
pursue it,
> Block
> asked if it was okay if he did.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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