Was Dan J. Marlowe a Writer of Pornography?
by
Bart Choveric


    Some years ago, while trolling through the copyright records, I came across a group of books labeled Dansk Blue Books, registered for copyright and published by Brandon House, known purveyors of soft and hard core pornography.  What really grabbed my attention immediately was the fact that some of  the titles had been registered to a Jaime Sandaval, a pseudonym used by Dan J. Marlowe for a group of detective short stories that appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Mike Shayne’s Mystery Magazine.

    Could it be that Marlowe had succumbed to the prospect of easy money from the pornography publishers?  If so, he wouldn’t have been the first of many big name writers to do so.  I happen to think so and I shall present my evidence and you, the reader, may be the judge.

    The evidence I present is divided into two categories.  The first lists those titles that are registered to Jaime Sandaval and whose authors of the books are anagrams for some form of Dan J. Marlowe.  The second category are books not registered to Jaime Sandaval, but whose authors are likewise anagrams for Dan J. Marlowe or Dan Marlowe.


Category 1

Dansk Blue Book 103 - The Young Librarian (February 1971), by Rod Waleman, pseud. of Jaime Sandaval.
    [Rod Waleman is an anagram for Dan Marlowe.]

Dansk Blue Book 105 - The Orphan Girls (March 1971), by Major D.  Lawn, pseud. of Jaime Sandaval.
    [Major D. Lawn is an anagram for Dan J. Marlow(e). ]

Dansk Blue Book 107 - The Stepdaughters (March 1971), by Rod Waleman, pseud. of Jaime Sandaval.
    [Rod Waleman is an anagram for Dan Marlowe.]

Dansk Blue Book 113 - The Innocent Schoolteacher (May 1971), by Rod Waleman, pseud. of Jaime Sandaval.
    [Rod Waleman is an anagram for Dan Marlowe.]


Category 2

Dansk Blue Book 101 - Reluctant Wives (February 1971), by Mande Woljar. 
    [Mande Woljar is an anagram for Dan J. Marlowe.]

Dansk Blue Book 119 - The Unwilling Mistress (June 1971), by Alma Werdon. 
    [Alma Werdon is an anagram for Dan Marlowe.]


    There is another group of books that are registered to a Leonard James, which comes fairly close to being anagrammatic for Dan J. Marlowe, but I feel that I might be stretching the evidence.


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    NOTE:  Go here for an article by Josef Hoffman covering the relationship between Dan J. Marlowe, Al Nussbaum and Earl Drake.   A bibliography follows, then an installment of Bill Crider’s Gold Medal Corner, featuring once again Dan J. Marlowe.





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