Funny ou mention this JP...we just watched Le Deuxième Souffle that we got
from Netflix, from the Giovanni novel and script...
Absolutely essential. Book and Melville film...I haven¹t seen the Corneau
remaque...have you?
Montois
On 10/30/08 5:27 PM, "jean-pierre jacquet" <jacquet@optonline.net> wrote:
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> I'd like to mention José Giovanni, french ex-con turned successful
> writer (4 books in the Série Noire, countless scripts) and filmmaker.
> His parents were professional gamblers who ran a gambling hall in
> Paris but lost a fortune during the Depression; José joined the
> Résistance in 1944 and then got involved with a gang specialized in
> blackmailing wartime French collaborators; was picked up after a
> shootout and spent 11 years on death row; was pardoned in the late
> 50's and turned his prison memoirs into a succesful first novel LE
> TROU. He was involved in a bunch of noirish films featuring Delon,
> Ventura, Gabin, Belmondo.
> On Oct 30, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Steve Novak wrote:
>
>> > 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
>> <mailto:jimdohertyjr%40yahoo.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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Steve Novak
Cinefrog@comcast.net
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