Here are some comments Steve Mertz sent to me tonight
regarding Cleve F. Adams' novel CONTRABAND, passed on to the
group with Steve's permission:
"Hi there, James--
I just finished lurking in on the Cleve F. Adams CONTRABAND
discussion over at rara-avis. Gleaned from a letter to me
from Adams' widow, and the Bellem files at UCLA, here's the
deal. Adams was gravely ill, and so hired Bellem to string
together a series of novelettes that appeared in DETECTIVE
FICTION WEEKLY in the 1930's, featuring G-man Jim Flagg, into
the stand-alone Reed Smith novel. Bellem simply padded out
the Flagg stories, which is why the novel is episodic, and is
why Adams dedicated the novel to Bellem and his wife. After
Adams died, Bellem (with some help from WT Ballard) expanded
two other pulp magazine novellas into books (NO WINGS ON A
COP and SHADY LADY) as a favor to Mrs. Adams."
I knew that Bellem and Ballard were friends but didn't know
that Ballard also had a hand in NO WINGS ON A COP and SHADY
LADY.
James
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