Jim D:
"BTW, Dennis Lynds once told me that, while Halliday had
nothing really to do with the Shayne short stories that
appeared in MSMM, he at least made some contribution on the
novels. The "collaboration" might not have amounted to much,
but he put something of his into the books."
When Lynds was a guest here, I asked him about a single book,
called THE CORPSE THAT NEVER WAS. It had been suspected to be
written by Lynds, but he said that he'd only written the
short story under that title (or at least with the same
story) and that Halliday wrote the novel based on it.
"As for Leslie Charteris, he was always up-front about his
ghosts."
Well, not always. It's been suspected that some of his novels
that appeared in the fourties were written by people like
Henry Kuttner (KING OF THE BEGGARS) and Theodore Sturgeon.
David Pringle has offered very plausible explanations why
these could've been written by the said ghosts. And mind you,
there are some people who still claim that Harry Harrison
never wrote a Saint novel!
Juri
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