tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post3285070952549403789..comments2024-03-18T11:01:42.459-05:00Comments on Pretty Sinister Books: FFB: Benefit Performance - Richard SaleJ F Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-84963896874643406552023-05-02T04:51:20.807-05:002023-05-02T04:51:20.807-05:00One of my favourite crime thrillers with a Hollywo...One of my favourite crime thrillers with a Hollywood setting. I've enjoyed other stuff written by Sale as well.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-87811169823055920782012-01-28T19:58:59.769-06:002012-01-28T19:58:59.769-06:00Richard Sale is an excellent writer. I am only fa...Richard Sale is an excellent writer. I am only familiar with his writing in the pulps, especially in the pulp Detective Fiction Weekly. His Daffy Dill stories in that magazine are very good. Thanks for a review of one of his books. I will have to look out for them.Monte Herridgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-90597719423031085012012-01-20T10:35:29.888-06:002012-01-20T10:35:29.888-06:00I was unfamiliar with Sale, John. But now I'll...I was unfamiliar with Sale, John. But now I'll be keeping an eye out. This one definitely sounds like fun. :)Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-83258434528894639372012-01-20T10:04:37.157-06:002012-01-20T10:04:37.157-06:00Sergio -
Evan Lewis has some of Sale's pulp s...Sergio -<br /><br />Evan Lewis has some of Sale's pulp stories available for reading on his blog. One about Daffy Dill is <a href="http://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com/2010/02/complete-daffy-dill-story-by-richard.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and another about Candid Jones is <a href="http://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com/2010/05/long-shot-first-candid-jones-story-by.html" rel="nofollow">here.</a><br /><br />His pulp magazine writing is vast and varied beginning as early as 1931 and lasting into the early 1950s. He wrote detective fiction, weird menace thrillers, gangster tales and had at least five series characters in the pulps. There is an excellent overview of his Candid Jones stories at Mystery*File <a href="http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=13163" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Some of his novellas were collected and are available in Popular Library paperbacks (MURDER AT MIDNIGHT, HOME IS THE HANGMAN and DEATH AT SEA). This is the first novel I've read. Two other novels (PASSING STRANGE and LAZARUS #7) get high praise in Bill Pronzini's <i>1001 Midnights. </i><br /><br />Deb, George & Sergio (again) -<br /><br />I rarely give any author info in my reviews, but Sale's bio is one I could've written a lot about. Thanks to all three of you for mentioning his life as a screenwriter. His inside knowledge of the insane world of 1940s era Hollywood turns up in a lot of his crime fiction.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-69548952696903666822012-01-20T09:25:33.686-06:002012-01-20T09:25:33.686-06:00I agree with Deb: THE OSCAR is a terrific book. S...I agree with Deb: THE OSCAR is a terrific book. Sale's work should be better known.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-68835762587547327822012-01-20T06:14:53.071-06:002012-01-20T06:14:53.071-06:00For me, Sale is best remembered for writing the no...For me, Sale is best remembered for writing the novel THE OSCAR upon which one of my all-time favorite campy cinematic melodramas is based. Both the book and the movie are perfect early 1960s time-capsules.Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-56328767729687393432012-01-20T05:00:23.399-06:002012-01-20T05:00:23.399-06:00I am more familiar with Sale's work as a scree...I am more familiar with Sale's work as a screenwriter and director in the 50s and 60s (mostly, but not exclusively, westerns) but, like Roy Huggins, I knew he also had an earlier career writing thrillers. <br /><br />Cheers John, I am definitely going to seek him out. Very glad to hear his work isnlt too hard to find ...Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)http://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com