Wed 17 Dec 2008
Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV: Franklin Coen to A. L. Conroy.
Posted by Steve under Authors , Crime Fiction IV[7] Comments
Included in this post are authors in the A-C section of the online Addenda to the Revised Crime Fiction IV, by Allen J. Hubin.
In all likelihood, this will be the last of these posts I’ll do on the blog. While I’m pleased with the results, it takes more time that it should to double post them. From now on, annotated additions and corrections like these will be found only on the primary CFIV website.
COEN, FRANKLIN. 1912-1990. US movie & TV screenwriter with many credits between 1936 and 1974. Add the second of the two books listed below. This now constitutes the author’s complete entry in the Revised Crime Fiction IV.
The Plunderers. Coward McCann, US, hc, 1980. Severn House, UK, hc, 1981. “A high-speed, high-stakes thriller – Nazi greed against all the pride of Paris.”
-Vinegar Hill. Rinehart, 1950. Setting: US South. TV movie: Art & Anne, 1995, as Deadly Family Secrets (scw: Brian Taggert; dir: Richard T.Heffron)
COFFEY, BRIAN. Pseudonym of Dean R. Koontz.
The Face of Fear. TV movie: CBS, 1990 (scw: Dean R. Koontz, Alan Jay Glueckman; dir: Farhad Mann)
COLE, ALEXANDER. Pseudonym of Justin Scott, q.v. Other pseudonym: J. S. Blazer; add new pseudonym: Paul Garrison. As “Alexander Cole,” the author has only one entry in the Revised Crime Fiction IV. See below:
The Auction. Jove, US, pb, 1983. Add British edition: Granada, hc, 1985, as by Justin Scott. “Kidnapped. The most valuable man in the world. The bidding starts at $5 million…”
COLE, MARTINA
The Jump. TV movie: BBC, 1998 (scw: Martina Cole; dir: Richard Standeven)
COLLINS, JACKIE. Pen name of Jacqueline Collins Lerman, 1941- . Prolific bestselling author; much of her fiction has criminous components. Add the second of the two novels below.
Chances. Partial basis for TV movie [mini-series]: NBC, 1990, as Lucky/Chances (scw: Jackie Collins; dir: Buzz Kulik). SC: Lucky Santangelo (Nicollette Sheridan), Gino Santangelo (Vincent Irizarry)
Lucky. Simon & Schuster, hc, 1985; Collins, UK, hc, 1985. SC: Santangelo family; setting: Las Vegas, NV. Partial basis for TV movie [mini-series]: NBC, 1990, as Lucky/Chances (scw: Jackie Collins; dir: Buzz Kulik). SC: Lucky Santangelo (Nicollette Sheridan), Gino Santangelo (Vincent Irizarry)
COLLINS, MAX ALLAN
The Road to Perdition. Film: Dreamworks, 2002 (scw: David Self; dir: Sam Mendes)
COLLINS, WILKIE
Basil. Film: Kushner-Locke, 1998 (scw & dir: Radha Bharadwaj)
The Moonstone. TV movie: BBC/PBS, 1996 (scw: Kevin Elyot; dir: Robert Bierman)
The Woman in White. TV movie [series episode/Dow Hour of Great Mysteries]: NBC, 1960 (scw: Frank Ford; dir: Paul Nickell)
CONDON, RICHARD
The Manchurian Candidate. Film: Paramount, 2004 (scw: George Axelrod; dir: Jonathan Demme)
CONNELLY, MICHAEL
Blood Work. Film: Warner, 2002 (scw: Brian Helgeland; dir: Clint Eastwood)
CONRAD, JOSEPH
The Secret Agent. TV movie [mini-series]: BBC, 1967 (scw: Alexander Baron; dir: Gerald Blake). Also: BBC, 1992 (scw: Dusty Hughes; dir: David Drury)
-Victory. Doubleday, 1915; Methuen, 1915. Silent film: Paramount, 1919 (scw: Jules Furthman; dir: Maurice Tourneur). Sound film: Paramount, 1930, as Dangerous Paradise (scw: William Slavens McNutt, Grover Jones; dir: William A. Wellman). Also: Paramount, 1940 (scw: John L. Balderston; dir: John Cromwell). Also: Miramax, 1995 (scw & dir: Mark Peploe)
CONROY, A. L. This is this author’s only entry in the Revised Crime Fiction IV. [In spite of the similarity of names, there is no evidence to suggest that the author was Al Conroy, aka Marvin H. Albert.]
Storefront Lawyers. (Bantam, pb, 1970) Novelization of TV movie [series episode/Storefront Lawyers] entitled A Man’s Castle: CBS, 1970 (scw: unknown; dir: Lee H. Katzin)
SCOTT, JUSTIN (BLAZER). 1942- . Pseudonyms: J. S. Blazer, Alexander Cole, q.v. Add pseudonym: Paul Garrison. His father, A. Leslie Scott, was the author of approximately 250 western novels, including many under several pen names; his mother, Lily K. Scott, wrote novels, many of them romances, as well as short stories for the slicks and pulp magazines. Also a novelist is his sister, Alison Scott Skelton. Under his own name, the author of many crime and detective novels included in the Revised Crime Fiction IV.
The Auction. Grafton, hc, 1985. Add: This is the British edition of a book published in the US earlier as by Alexander Cole, q.v.
December 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Steve,
Strangely, I’ve seen the silent film of “Victory” you catalog here. It starts out very well, but it loses steam after the first 20 minutes. It’s out on DVD, because it has a supporting performance by Lon Chaney.
December 18th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Mike
Your mention of the silent version of Victory caused me to look it up on IMDB to see why Al Hubin decided to accept the book it was based on as marginally criminous.
Here’s the plot summary as posted there:
“Axel Heyst, an uncommitted wanderer, has settled on an island in the South Seas. He takes pity on a troubled young woman, Lena, and gives her refuge on her island. But the piratical Mr. Jones, who believes Heyst has treasure buried on his island, leads his cohorts in an invasion of Heyst’s haven.”
Cast: Jack Holt (Axel Heyst), Seena Owen (Alma), Lon Chaney (Ricardo), Wallace Beery, (August Schomberg), Ben Deeley (Mr. Jones).
(I’m not sure, but I get the idea that Lena in the earlier paragraph is actually Alma of the cast listings.)
As for Lon Chaney, I think you’re right in saying that he’s the reason the movie is out on DVD.
— Steve
December 18th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I’ve just added a cover image to the Joseph Conrad entry. It’s from the silent film version of VICTORY, taken from the DVD cover.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
“Victory.” I had forgotten that Chaney was in that. I watched much of Kevin Brownlow’s Chaney documentary that was shown on Turner and included in a set of Chaney films. Nobody does documentaries on films better than Brownlow. Very few people do as well.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The listing for Alexander Cole (Justin Scott) mentions that Paul Garrison is another of Scott’s pseudonyms. There’s at least one Western novel under the Paul Garrison name (Dirk’s Revenge, published by Harper Paperbacks in 1990) and I’m wondering if it was written by Scott or if there’s another Paul Garrison. It would be nice if it was Scott’s work, since his father Leslie Scott was one of the more prolific authors for the Western pulps. I once owned a copy of Dirk’s Revenge, but I don’t think I ever read it. Maybe I should look for it again.
December 19th, 2008 at 12:43 am
That’s an interesting possibility. According to Paul Garrison’s website, though, the name was first used in 1998.
http://www.seastoriesbypaulgarrison.com/penname.html
talking about a book called Fire And Ice, published by Avon in 1998, he says:
“… thus was born Paul Garrison, a first-time novelist who had never written a mystery, never written a paperback original, and had never, ever disappointed anyone.”
The last has to do with marketing people not wanting to take on authors with bad track records.
Checking his website further, a bibliography of the author under all of his pen names does not include the western you mention. (I’ve had a copy too, but a linkup with Justin Scott didn’t occur to me until you mentioned it.)
http://www.seastoriesbypaulgarrison.com/justinbiblio.html
So unless it’s a book that Scott really doesn’t want to acknowledge, it doesn’t look as though he was the Paul Garrison that wrote it.
Thanks, too, for reminding me that Justin Scott is Leslie Scott’s son. I knew that, but so far I hadn’t mentioned it in the annotated Addenda. I will tomorrow, though.
— Steve
December 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
An entry in the Addenda for Justin Scott has been revised, and I’ve just added it to this post. Thanks again to James for the jog to the old noggin.
— Steve