Thanks a lot Ed. The "mystery" was whether he died off his
boat or in his appartment. The end result is the same either
way, but I'm glad the truth is the more romantic version, him
being such a novelist of the sea.
Charlie.
www.charliewilliams.net
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, ejgorman99@a... wrote:
>
> I got into this late. I'm assuming you're talking
about Charles
Williams the
> suspense novelist (as opposed to the Brit lit
novelist and an
adventure writer
> from the Thirties).
>
> For a book edited by Jon Breen called Murder off The
Rack, seven or
eight of
> us took our favorite pb writer and did a piece on
him. I took
Williams. I had
> two or three long discussions about Williams with
his long-time
agent Don
> Congdon. Don told me that he was one of the best
writers that he'd
ever
> represented but that Williams just never got the
break some of the
others did. Even
> though he did some movie work from time to time and
even though he
was reviewed
> widely and well, he just never hit the big time the
way John D or a
few other pb
> boys did.
>
> There really isn't any mystery to how Williams died.
One Monday
morning
> Condgon got a telegram (?) saying By the time you
read this, Don,
I'll be dead.
>
> Congdon said that he'd been begging Willims to come
back to the
small town
> where he'd been living. Congdon, as I recall, said
that Williams
hadn't been
> writing and was deeply depressed folowing the death
of his wife
from cancer. He
> stayed on his boat alone after his wife passed. So,
after sending
the telegram
> to Congdon, he went over the side of the boat and
drowned.
>
> I may have a few details wrong--our conversation
were twelve
thirteen years
> ago--but that's essentially the story. No real
mystery that I'm
aware of.
>
> Ed Gorman
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
removed]
>
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