Steve Fisher (Stephen Gould Fisher) was born in California in
1912 and died in 1980. He wrote many stories for pulp
magazines, then moving to slick periodicals like The Saturday
Evening Post. A good friend of Cornell Woolrich's, Fisher
used Woolrich's personality for the psycho cop in his novel
"I Wake Up Screaming" (1941), and in the screenplay of
H.Bruce Humberstone's movie featuring Victor Mature, Betty
Grable and Laird Cregar. Sounds funny, but the psycho cop in
Fisher's novel is called "Ed Cornell". In Francis Nevins'
Woolrich bio, "First You Dream, Then You Die", Fisher is
reported telling a strange story of him and Frank Gruber
trying to lure Woolrich out of his hotel room for a beer.
They phoned Woolrich, but his mother won't let him pick up
the phone...
Later,
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-----Messaggio originale----- Da:
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca [mailto:
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca]Per conto di Etienne Borgers
Inviato: lunedi 5 marzo 2001 8.55 A: Rara Avis Oggetto:
RARA-AVIS: Steve Fisher - Robert Edmond Alter
I try to know more about the following writers and
works:
1/ Steve Fisher I was told that 2 novels by this writer are
interesting, and above average: NO HOUSE LIMIT (1958) BE
STILL MY HEART (1960)
He also wrote : Vicky- aka "I wake Up Screaming"- 1941 Which
is better known, because of its film adaptations
I anyway do not remember to have read something by this
author.
2/ Robert Edmond Alter I bought two novels by this writer
published by Black Lizard, because of sales in one bookshop I
visited. 1.5 US$ a piece, new, was certainly not a big
risk... CARNY KILL SWAMP SISTER
In the same move I got also "Web of Murder" by Whittington-
this one I know , of course.
Thanks in advance for any information.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geociites.com/Athens/6384
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