We've talked about the Kane Jackson novels Dennis writes in
his "William Arden" persona, and also about his work under
that name on the "Three Investigators" juvenile mystery
novels.
I thought I should also mention that, just one year after
getting the First Novel Edgar for ACT OF FEAR, Dennis almost
walked away with a second for something he wrote as
Arden.
Dennis was one of the finalists in the Short Story category,
and his entry "Success of a Mission," is one of the best
espionage short stories I've ever read. I personally
preferred it to the winner that year, Warner Law's "The Man
Who Fooled the World." Perhaps his already being such a
recent Edgar winner worked against him.
I'm not sure but I think "Success" was originally published
in ARGOSY. It was preserved between hard covers in one of
those ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS anthologies, but I can't
recall which one. That was where I found it.
Dennis, comparatively few spy stories are written at the
short story level. Maugham's collection ASHENDEN
- THE BRITISH AGENT, and Fleming's two Bond collections, FOR
YOUR EYES ONLY and OCTOPUSSY, are the only short story
collections featuring a single character I can think of.
You're one of the few writers who's done spy fiction at both
lengths. Is there some reason spy writers eschew the short
story medium?
JIM DOHERTY
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