Paul Hartshorne wrote:
> Interesting that you should ask this
Juri!
And great that you should answer!
> I bought a stack of '50's Signet pb's from a U.S.
dealer a couple of months
> ago and included was Sam S. Taylor's NO HEAD FOR HER
PILLOW. I'd never heard
> of Taylor before, and Kevin Burton Smith's usually
informative Thrilling
> Detective website has no info on Neal Cotten, so I
slipped it to the bottom
> of the pile, but for some reason started reading it
yesterday. Perhaps it
> was the caption above the title that reads REDHEADS
- RACKETS - And MURDER!
> I mean, how could any rara avian resist!
> I haven't finished it yet, but I'm enjoying it
greatly. Neal Cotten is
> obviously a Marlowe knock-off, but he's interesting
enough to sustain
> interest, with plenty of humour mixed with the
action.
Thanks for your opinions - I can't tell anything of mine,
since I've been putting the one translated book aside. But
sounds good!
> The brief bio on the back cover states that Taylor,
quote: has written many
> radio scripts and magazine stories, end quote, so he
could well be Harold
> Lloyd's scripter.
He must be! How can this be a different guy? I mean, what
chances are there that there are two Sam Taylors who both
wrote scripts? Well, the bio on your book says that he wrote
radio scripts...
> I'm assuming that this novel is the second of the
three, as SLEEP NO MORE,
> is mentioned on the back cover. Do you know the
title of the third?
"So Cold, My Bed" (1953).
Juri
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