Mon 29 Dec 2008
Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV – FREDA DAVIES to DAVID DELMAN.
Posted by Steve under Authors , Crime Fiction IV[5] Comments
More authors from the D-H section of the annotated online Addenda for the Revised Crime Fiction IV, by Allen J. Hubin.
PLEASE NOTE: This will be the last of the Addenda updates to appear on the M*F blog, I’m sorry to say. To post them here as well as there takes time and effort I’ve decided I could use more effectively elsewhere. What I’ll be doing instead is putting together a list of interested parties to whom I’ll send updates like this one by email on a regular basis. If you’d like to be on the list, leave a comment or contact me directly, and I’ll make sure you are.
DAVIES, FREDA. 1937- . Add year of birth. Born in London; read zoology at Bristol University and taught for a while before moving to Pembrokeshire. Add SC: science reporter Sue Bennett, in the title below and at least one later novel, post-2000. Pseudonym: Amy Pirnie, q.v.
Let Heaven Fall. Allison, UK, pb, 1995; Carroll & Graf, US, hc, 2006, as by Amy Pirnie (shown). “Accidental death, judges the coroner, but was it simply a case of solicitor Colin Bennett falling under a rush-hour train?”

DAVIS, ELIZABETH.
There Was an Old Woman. TV movie: Mark Carliner, 1971, as Revenge (scw: Joseph Stefano; dir: Jud Taylor)
DAVIS, GIL. Add as a new author. SC: Dan Walker, who does undercover assignments for the CIA, in all titles.
Assignment: Tokyo. Publishers Export, pb, 1967. Setting: Tokyo.
Missile Island. Publishers Export, pb, 1967. Setting: Caribbean.
Valley of the Doles. Publishers Export, pb, 1967. Setting: Texas (El Paso).
DEAL, BABS.
The Walls Came Tumbling Down. TV movie: Whittman, 1979, as Friendships, Secrets, and Lies (scw: Joanna Crawford; dir: Ann Zane Shanks, Marlena Laird). [Note: Filmed and produced with an all female cast, with only one male in the crew, a cinematographer.]

DEFOE, DANIEL.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Film: MGM, 1996, as Moll Flanders (scw & dir: Pen Densham). TV movie: BBC, 1975, as Moll Flanders (scw: Hugh Whitemore; dir: Donald McWhinnie). Also: ITV/PBS, 1996, as The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (scw: Andrew Davies; dir: David Attwood). [Shown is the DVD case for the 1996 MGM film.]

DELMAN, DAVID. TV movie, based on an unidentified novel: Lorimar, 1975, as Conspiracy of Terror (scw: Howard Rodman; dir: John Llewellyn Moxey). SC: Lt. Jacob Horowitz (Michael Constantine) [and Barbara Rhoades as Helen Horowitz].
December 29th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Steve,please can you put me on the list for updates. Thanks
December 30th, 2008 at 6:06 am
What Martin said. Thanks.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I, too, second Martin’s request. Many thanks.
December 30th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Me, too, Steve! Thanks! (And sorry about getting confused about the notion that you were going to shut off this blog…)
August 26th, 2012 at 10:04 pm
David Delman’s novel HE WHO DIGS A GRAVE was adapted by Stephen Kandel for the 2-part third-season opener of CANNON. William Conrad’s Cannon took the place of Delman’s Jewish detective Jacob Horowitz, and the Helen character who was the small-town police chief became the mayor instead (and was played by Anne Baxter). In Delman’s book, Helen and Horowitz are married, and she leaves her California hometown to move with Jacob back to Manhattan. The characters continued in later Delman books, but HE WHO DIGS A GRAVE is the only one I’ve read. The CANNON episode was filmed two years before CONSPIRACY OF TERROR.