----- Original Message ----- From: "James Reasoner" <
james53@flash.net>
> 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
>
Thanks for the information. I collect Detective Fiction
Weekly, so I will have to find this book and see if I can
identify which stories were used. I might have the issues in
which they appeared.
Monte Herridge
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