He was a good writer, now mostly forgotten.Carnival is a festival that happens over a few days, usually just before Lent, in February or March. I believe that as "Roger Fuller" he continued the Peyton Place series after Grace Metalious's death, as well as writing other media tie-ins (like Son of Flubber ). He wrote some nice pb originals himself later on, as well as some historical novels.
If you've only seen the movie, you might want to check it out.Īnd by the way, think a bit on Don Tracy. This is a neat little noir, told in the flat, objective style that was coming on strong in the '30s. And, sure enough, Slim has the last laugh. Johnny gets the idea that he can hear Slim laughing at him, though Slim's no longer among the living. Being a hero isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when you're still hooked on the wrong woman. If you think that's the end, though, you're wrong. Johnny's idea is to turn the tables, and he does. Johnny goes along with the idea, knowing that Slim plans to kill him. Slim finds out about the hanky-panky, and asks Johnny to help him knock over an armored car. She doesn't love Slim, and, while she doesn't love Johnny, either, she doesn't mind a little extra-marital hanky-panky (this book's surprisingly sexy for a 1934 novel, about as frank as a typical '50s Gold Medal, in fact). The woman marries a guy named Slim, who's a low-level heister. He's not handsome or rich, just a down-on-his luck former boxer with a flat nose and a low-paying job as an armored-car guard. Johnny Thompson falls for the wrong woman. The book itself is sort of a proto-Gold Medal, published a good 15 years before GM went into the pb original business. It was also the basis for Stephen Soderbergh's The Underneath. Criss-Cross is the reprint of Don Tracy's 1934 novel that forms the basis of the movie with the same name (starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne de Carlo, and Dan Duryea (and I'm sure I've mentioned before that my father insisted on calilng him "Dan Diarrhea). After I looked the book over, I was even more pleased with the purchase than I'd expected to be. My theory is that when you see a book with a cover like that, you buy it. The other day I saw this book on a thrift-shop shelf, and nabbed it immediately.
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