David Dodge was very ecclectic, and as far as I remember
rarely pure HB. He's the one who wrote TO CATCH A THIEF
(1952) that was the base of Hitchcock's film.
BULLET FOR THE BRIDEGROOM, was published in 1944 and I never
came across it. It's a novel with his character Whit Whitney
who appeared in 3 other novels as well. He's a kind of tax
advisor, and with his wife they form something like the
Charles' of Hammett.
There was a series with a PI living in Mexico City. THE LONG
ESCAPE is one of them. Another of these novels was adapted
for film (Plunder in the Sun- 1953) and it was Latimer who
scripted it!
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--- "McHale, Steve" <
SMcHale@filenet.com> wrote:
> Congrats on finding that David Dodge - they are
hard
> to find. Unfortunately,
> I don't know that book, but I can tell you this:
I
> have seven of his books
> and I never heard of Bullets for the Bridegroom.
You
> scored.
>
> He's one of the better writers - sometimes
HB,
> sometimes medium boiled. His
> settings are sometimes in foreign locations.
The
> Lights of Skarro was set in
> Yugoslavia - it was about a couple of
journalists
> trying to escape the
> country after facing bogus charges. The Long
Escape
> is about an insurance
> investigator who goes to South America (or
maybe
> Mexico) to investigate the
> death of an insured patriarch. He runs into
all
> kinds of family resistance.
>
> >>>Does anyone have info about the L'Amour
& Dodge
> books?
>
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