Thanks Jim for this; your precious info has been saved and all the additions
since give a very ull picture.
Thanks again,
Montois
On 10/29/08 5:48 PM, "JIM DOHERTY" <jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Re Jonathan's comment below:
>
> "Does anyone know of criminal writers and I can only think of one cop writer
> in Joseph Wambaugh."
>
> I'm crushed. Crushed!
>
> All those responses to Jonathan's post, and no one thought to mention your
> obediant servant? A police officer most of his adult life, a Spur winner, a
> Dagger nominee, and a Rare Bird lo these many years, and not a single mention?
>
> Leaving myself aside, a few more cops turned crime writer.
>
> Leslie T. White, L.A. County D.A.'s Investigator and author of the
> autobiography ME, DETECTIVE and the cop novels HARNESS BULL and HOMICIDE.
>
> Jess Kimbrough, retired LAPD detective lieutenant, and one of the highest
> ranking black officers in that department when he retired in 1939, who wrote
> DEFENDER OF THE ANGELS, a novel based on his experiences policing L.A. in the
> '20's and '30's.
>
> Dallas Barnes, who worked Narcotics and Homicide in LAPD's Southwest Division
> prior to writing novels like SEE THE WOMAN, BADGE OF HONOR, and YESTERDAY IS
> DEAD, as well as scripts for TV shows like HUNTER, JOE FORRESTER, etc.
>
> John Ball, who found the police work he researched for his Virgil Tibbs novels
> so fascinating that he became a reserve deputy in the L.A. County Sheriff's
> Office, eventually turning those experiences into fiction in THE VAN and THE
> MURDER CHILDREN.
>
> Gene Roddenberry, who was a sergeant in LAPD, working as Chief Parker's
> perosnal secretary, and the department's liason to Jack Webb. He broke into
> TV writing by turning case files into story treatments for DRAGNET that were
> then fleshed out into full scripts by Webb's stable of writers. Later, using
> a pseudonym, he wrote full scripts for shows like HIGHWAY PATROL. He'S better
> known for STAR TREK than for his cop show scripts, OF COURSE, but cop shows
> are how he broke into the industry.
>
> Former US Secret Service Agent Gerald Petievich wrote four novels about Secret
> Service agents in Los Angeles based on his own experiences, and one novel
> based on the experiences of his brother, John, as a detective in LAPD's
> C.R.A.S.H. unit.
>
> And that's just in the Los Angeles area.
>
> Still sticking to California, there's Inyo County Deputy Sheriff Kirk
> Mitchell, San Diego PD Detective Sergeant Jack Mullen, San Francisco Police
> Officer Jerry Kenneally, San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara. Oakland Police
> Officer Kent Anderson (though, strictly speaking, his NIGHT DOGS seems to be
> based on his time in the Portland, OR, Police, prior to his lateral transfer
> to OPD), and San Jose Police Investigator David Scannell.
>
> In Louisiana there's O'Neill de Noux and B.J. Bourg. In Texas, there's Anne
> Wingate and Richard Abshire. In Florida there's Cherokee Paul MacDonald. In
> Vermont there's Archer Mayor. In Tennessee there's David Hunter.
>
> And how about FBI Agents like Gordon Gordon, Paul Lindsey, Arthur Nehrbass,
> Christopher Whitcomb, and Gus Riehl?
>
> The rest of the world? There's Britain's John Wainwright, Basil Thomson, Joan
> Lock, Graham Ison, and Peter Walker. The Netherlands' A.C. Bantjer and
> Janwillem van de Wetering. The Soviet Union's Fridrikh Neznansky. Finland's
> Matti Joensuu. India's Yogesh Pratap.
>
> As for ex-cons, has anyone on this thread mentioned former FBI Top Tenner
> Albert Nussbaum or white-collar criminal and Edgar-winner Paul Erdman? How
> about Malcom Braly, who was the subject of a very recent thread?
>
> Finally, regarding the writer who started this thread, who was neither a cop
> nor a criminal, David Goodis, if you don't think he was capable of writing
> with verisimilitude, with what a famous mystery editor once called "technical
> verity," check out his pioneering, and quite well-researched, police
> procedural novel OF MISSING PERSONS. Untypical, I grat you, but damned good.
>
> Longest-winded I've been in a while. Hope you didn't mind.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
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