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Donald Hamilton: Novels |
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Date With DarknessDonald HamiltonRinehart1947
"The hero is Lieutenant Philip Branch, USNR, who has been serving in the Navy during WWII at a desk job in Chicago, Illinois. He is soon to be released from active duty and is spending a couple weeks leave in New York City. There he meets Jeanette Duval, wife of a French collaborator, who is trying to smuggle her husband into the U.S. Trying to thwart her efforts, a group of idealistic French patriots want to capture Mr. Duval and see to it that he is punished for his collaboration with the Nazis. They all want Lieutenant Branch to assist them, and he spends most of the book trying to figure out who the good guys and the bad guys are."
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The Steel MirrorDonald HamiltonRinehart1948
"John Emmett, a chemist who worked for the U.S. government during WWII, is enroute to a new job in California. When his car dies, he hitches a ride with a woman, Ann Nicholson, who may or may not have amnesia, who may or may not have murdered someone, and who may or may not be crazy."
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Murder Twice ToldDonald HamiltonRinehart1950? A short story collection.
Comprise two short novels Deadfall and The Black Cross. The novels had previously been published in The American Magazine and Collier's respectively.
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Night WalkerDonald HamiltonDell1954
"David Young is a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve, returning to active duty. On his way to Norfolk Naval Base in the middle of the night, Young hitches a ride with Lawrence Wilson, an ill-tempered man who explains how he was recently fired from the Navy Department for alleged seditious activities. Young is suddenly attacked by the stranger and loses consciousness. When he awakens, he is laying in a hospital bed with his head wrapped in bandages. The nurse calls him 'Mr. Wilson' and informs him that he is lucky to be alive after such a horrific car accident. Things get even stranger when his supposed wife - a brunette bombshell named Elizabeth - checks the still-sedated Young out of the hospital and takes him home. Without even realizing it, Young becomes the main target of a killer - or killers - involved in an intricate Communist plot that threatens the security of the nation."
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Smoky ValleyDonald HamiltonDell1954
"Sometimes a peaceful man backs up until there's no more room. Then he has to stand still. And if he gets restless, there's nothing to do but move out fast - with both guns high and triggered. That's the way it was with John Parrish. He'd come west to the Valley looking for a small stake and no trouble. He'd had his fill of killing in the war. But then the men of the Anchor spread began to push their brand. They wanted the whole basin, and Parrish was in the way. They murdered the sheriff and burned down Parrish's ranch. And then Parrish knew he'd have to fight or go under. He'd killed a few men in his time. Now he figured there'd have to be a few more."
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Line of FireDonald HamiltonDell1955
"An assassin gets caught up in a botched kill when a young woman stumbles onto the scene. He tries to protect her and keep them both alive."
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Assignment: MurderDonald HamiltonDell1956 Published in the 1960's as Assassins Have Starry Eyes.
"A gang of killers loose on the desert - a girl who knew her way around a gun."
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Mad RiverDonald HamiltonDell1956
"Boyd Cohoon had served five years in prison for another man's crime. His next thing was to find who'd killed his father and brother. Boyd Cohoon was coming home. With a gun in his hand and revenge in his soul."
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The Big CountryDonald HamiltonDell1958
"Texas 1886. He came as a stranger into a land where everyman was welcome - to an early grave."
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Death of a CitizenDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1960 A Matt Helm novel.
"Matt Helm, one-time special agent for the American government during the Second World War, has left behind his violent past to raise a family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When a former colleague turns rogue and kidnaps his daughter, Helm is forced to return to his former life as a deadly and relentless assassin."
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The Wrecking CrewDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1960 A Matt Helm novel.
"Matt Helm, newly reinstated counter-agent, has a mission. He must travel to the wastes of northern Sweden and dispose of Caselius, a wraith-like operator with a genius for destruction. But amid a bewildering web of deceit woven by the enemy agent, his only ally deceased and help a thousand miles away, Helm soon realises he must track down his deadly prey alone."
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The Man From Santa ClaraDonald HamiltonDell1960 Published in 1971, and subsequently, as The Two-Shoot Gun.
"Photographer Alexander Burdick drives his old mule-drawn army ambulance and a smooth-bore shotgun to the New Mexico Territory and into a range war."
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Texas FeverDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1960
"Texas Fever, the Kansans called it - and they drove the Texas longhorns from their borders. If the cattle were diseased, the men were worse - they were Texas Rebs, some of them still wearing faded Army grey. They were outcasts, driving hard across a land where war wounds still festered. They were gamblers, staking their futures on a herd of pure-bred cattle."
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The RemoversDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1961 A Matt Helm novel.
"It is a year since his reactivation and counter-agent Matt Helm, code name Eric, gets a call from his ex-wife, asking for help. Soon he's torn between the neurotic urges of a gangster's headstrong daughter and the remnants of his former life. There's also his day job: enemy agent Martel must be 'removed' before he can threaten national security—or the lives of Helm's family."
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The SilencersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1962 A Matt Helm novel.
"When a female agent in Mexico is killed before Helm can complete his mission to extract her, he finds himself teamed up with the woman's sister as he fights to save the lives of a number of scientists and Congressmen."
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Murderer’s RowDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1962 A Matt Helm novel.
"The department is concerned about Matt Helm. Having been given a distasteful assignment—assaulting a fellow agent in order to establish her cover in a top-secret operation—the woman is now dead. Alone in Chesapeake Bay, and pursued by his own government, Helm must complete the dead agent's assignment and assassinate an enemy operative. Unless his employers get to him first."
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The AmbushersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1963 A Matt Helm novel.
"After carrying out a deadly assignment for a foreign nation, Matt Helm can unwind by tracking down a Nazi who doesn't know the war is over, and who has plans for a Russian missile smuggled out of Cuba, plans that don't look good for the United States. His only ally is a battle-scarred and shapely female Soviet agent who can't stand to be touched. At first, anyway."
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The ShadowersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1964 A Matt Helm novel.
"In order to foil an assassination plot, counter- agent Matt Helm must undertake his most dangerous mission: matrimony. A man like Helm is not the kind a woman would marry. Unless she has to. Unless it's all part of maintaining an ingenious cover. The man whose daily bread is violence takes a most unlikely bride—just to make sure death doesn't part them."
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The RavagersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1964 A Matt Helm novel.
"It was not a peaceful way to die, but there was nothing Matt Helm could do for his fellow agent. He had found him in a Canadian motel room, his once-handsome face eaten away by acid. Scratch one agent. The women wouldn't be lining up for him now. But it created further problems. The most likely culprit was a woman Helm had orders to protect—no matter the cost."
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The DevastatorsDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1965 A Matt Helm novel.
"On a lonely heath in northern Scotland they recovered the body of the third agent sent to complete a tricky mission. He had died from bubonic plague. Somewhere on the moors was a half-crazed scientific genius who could kill millions, and it was Helm's job to get him, with the help of a beautiful American operative and a deadly Russian one."
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The BetrayersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1966 A Matt Helm novel.
"Matt Helm finds himself in Hawaii, trying to unhatch a plot of unrivalled viciousness. When an agent turns bad, nobody's business is private anymore, and when that agent decides to start a war, someone has to finish him—fast. Between the rogue agent and the stranger who insists she is his sister-in-law, this won't be a relaxing Pacific holiday."
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The MenacersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1968 A Matt Helm novel.
"Matt Helm is puzzled. He's been sent to Mexico to investigate the sighting of a flying saucer, but Helm doesn't believe in little green men. Then his Russian opposite number is shot in her hotel, but who did it? And why are the Mexican cops acting so tough? Time to track down the redhead who called in the sighting and get to the bottom of the case."
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The InterlopersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1969 A Matt Helm novel.
"This time Mac has gone too far. For Helm to impersonate a Communist courier to whom he bears no resemblance is suicide, and that isn't all. Someone wants to get the layout of the Alaskan North-west Coastal Defence System, but they aren't the good guys or the bad guys. So who the hell are they? And who is the mysterious Holz that Helm is meant to kill?"
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The PoisonersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1971 A Matt Helm novel.
"When Matt Helm is dispatched to Los Angeles to investigate the shooting of an agent, it isn't just an assignment - it's personal. To get the answers he wants means run-ins with two- bit hoods, a trio of beautiful women, a gang of drug traffickers, and his old friend Mr Soo, whose government has ideas about polluting America to death."
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The IntriguersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1973 A Matt Helm novel.
"Matt Helm is on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind except fishing, when some joker tries to shoot him in the back. Naturally it was no accident. When secret agents get shot at, it never is. So Helm has to go back to work. At least theres a bonus in the form of his bosss beautiful daughter, a playmate in peril."
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The IntimidatorsDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1974 A Matt Helm novel.
"It was a double mission this time. Firstly, to terminate a top-notch enemy agent. Secondly, to locate the missing fiancée of a Texas oil millionaire, lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Somehow these two cases were connected, but it wasn't clear how until more high-profile types disappeared. They weren't dead, just part of a deadly little game."
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The TerminatorsDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1975 A Matt Helm novel.
"When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a need-to-know deal, at least until his partner a woman posing as his mistress was killed. Now Helm is mad, mad enough to blow the operation sky high."
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The RetaliatorsDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1976 A Matt Helm novel.
"Matt Helm is unexpectedly rich, and he doesn't like it. Twenty thousand mysterious dollars appear in his bank account, but this is no time for celebration. Another secret agent with an unexplained surplus is murdered, and Helm figures he better work out who his 'benefactor' is before he becomes the next target."
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The TerrorizersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1977 A Matt Helm novel.
"The survivor of a plane crash wakes up in a hospital in Canada, his memory a blank. Then in walks Kitty, a gorgeous woman, who tells him that he is Paul Madden, a photographer, and her fiancé. Not bad. Except that a man on the phone keeps calling him Matt Helm. Things don’t add up. This can only mean trouble."
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The Mona InterceptDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1980
"A Cuban spymaster. An unstoppable U.S. agent. A thriller plot as explosive as today's headlines."
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The RevengersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1982 A Matt Helm novel.
"At a funeral of an old friend, Matt Helm takes a trip down memory lane and sparks a romance that he thought was safely in the past. But with old feelings resurfacing, other things Helm thought were buried are coming back to haunt him—a small-time hood in Mexico, a dirty drug deal, and a string of women that lead him into the ultimate compromising position."
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The AnnihilatorsDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1983 A Matt Helm novel.
"Matt Helm has got a good thing going with Elly. So a terrorist organization really have picked the wrong woman when they kidnap Elly in order to leverage Helm into carrying out an assassination. Soon, Helm will find himself back in Costa Verde - amidst the ensuing revolution - with one thing on his mind: revenge."
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The InfiltratorsDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1984 A Matt Helm novel.
"Beautiful, intelligent, fresh out of prison - Madeleine Ellershaw is Matt Helm’s latest case. She may have been imprisoned as a spy, but Helm soon realizes that Madeleine’s story isn’t so simple. He’s got to figure out why she took the rap for her husband nine years ago, what secrets are hiding in her past, and, most difficult of all: keep her alive."
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The DetonatorsDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1985 A Matt Helm novel.
"A prim young lady needs a favor: help her father beat a bum drug rap. But when Dad's boat detonates outside Miami Harbor, Matt discovers that young Amy isn't as innocent as she looks. Lured to the Bahamas, he will discover an unlikely pack of fanatics hatching an explosive plan, and that daddy's little girl is surprisingly deadly."
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The VanishersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1986 A Matt Helm novel.
"People are vanishing without a trace. And the disappearances are getting closer to home - the next likely target is Mac, Matt Helm's old boss. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Helm follows two beautiful and treacherous women who lead him all the way to his ancestral home - Sweden. With a coup from within the agency, and a terrorist threat from without, it's clear that nobody can be trusted."
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The DemolishersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1987 A Matt Helm novel.
"Matt Helm was aware of Bultman – a legendary assassin, the leader of a group of fanatical revolutionaries, an ambitious criminal – but he had no business with taking him down. Until now. Bultman blew up a restaurant on the Florida coast full of innocent people, including Helm's son. Now, it's very personal."
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The FrightenersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1989 A Matt Helm novel.
"No mission fazes Matt Helm, not even this one - to pose as an oil-rich Texas groom to a bride half his age. The aim: to pick up the trail of an illicit arms shipment in Mexico. If Matt fails, the country could burn in the inferno of revolution, right at America’s doorstep. And he doesn’t know that he’s not only the point man, he’s the number one target."
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The ThreatenersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1992 A Matt Helm novel.
"A ruthless South American drug lord has a plan to bring the United States to its knees. A group of renegade American agents has plans to smash the kingpin and his cartel, by any means necessary. Caught in the middle, Matt Helm’s got to do double duty to stop them both, and to protect a woman with information both sides would kill for."
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The DamagersDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1993 A Matt Helm novel.
"Take a gorgeous companion for a leisurely sail on a beautiful yacht. Sounds like easy duty for Matt Helm, except that the last three captains of the yacht died under mysterious circumstances. Matt will tangle with a crew of dangerous women, a terrorist squad, and an elite organization of death-dealing specialists. He had better be ready, if he wants to stay alive."
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Donald Hamilton: Non-fiction |
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On Guns and HuntingDonald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1970
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Cruises with KathleenDonald HamiltonD. McKay Co1980
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Colloquium On Crime: Eleven Renowned Mystery Writers Discuss Their WorkEditor: Robin W. Winks
Scribner's1986
Donald Hamilton is one of the contributing authors.
The other contributing authors are: Robert Barnard, Rex Burns, K. C. Constantine, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Michael Gilbert, James McClure, Joseph Hansen, Tony Hillerman, Reginald Hill, and Robert B. Parker.
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Iron Men and Silver StarsEditor: Donald HamiltonFawcett Gold Medal1967
A collection of Western stories. The contents are:
- Preface: The Great Tradition (Donald Hamilton)
- Green Wounds (Carter Travis Young)
- Epitaph (Tom W. Blackburn)
- In the Line of Duty (Elmer Kelton)
- Peace Officer (Brian Garfield)
- The Mayor of Strawberry Hill (Todhunter Ballard)
- Lawmen Stand Alone (Lin Searles)
- Coward's Canyon (John Prescott)
- The O'Keefe Luck (Wayne D. Overholser)
- The Hangman (Luke Short)
- Lynch Mob at Cimmarron Crossing (Thomas Thompson)
- The Guns of William Longley (Donald Hamilton)
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Murder Off the Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback MastersEditor: Jon L. Breen and Martin Harry Greenberg
Scarecrow Press1989
Includes a chapter on Donald Hamilton by Loren D. Estleman.
"The surge in paperback book production in the 1950s created a market for pulp-style crime fiction written by fast-fingered authors who could pound out potboilers on tight deadlines. These are the stories of ten genre pioneers whose work still packs a punch today. Noted mystery fiction scholars analyze each author's major works and provide insight into his background, commercial success (or lack thereof), and writing style."
The contents are:
- Introduction (Jon L. Breen)
- Harry Whittington (Bill Crider)
- Ed Lacy (Marvin Lachman)
- Jim Thompson (Max Allan Collins)
- The novels of Vin Packer (Jon L. Breen)
- Marvin H. Albert (George Kelley)
- Fifteen impressions of Charles Williams (Ed Gorman)
- Donald Hamilton (Loren D. Estleman)
- Peter Rabe (Donald E. Westlake)
- The executioner phenomenon (Will Murray)
- Warren Murphy and his heroic oddballs (Dick Lochte)
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The Big Book Of NoirEditor: Ed Gorman, Lee Server and Martin H. Geenberg
Carroll & Graf1998 Includes a chapter on Donald Hamilton by Robert Skinner.
"A compendium of articles and interviews about film noir and its spin-offs--novels, TV and radio shows, and comic books." The contents are:
- Introduction. Paint It Black: The Family Tree Of The Film Noir (Raymond Durgnat)
- Fritz Lang Remembers (Gene D. Phillips)
- Marlowe's Mean Streets: The Cinematic World Of Raymond Chandler (William F. Nolan)
- A Walk On The Wilder Side: Billy Wilder And The Hollywood Noir Mainstream (William Relling, Jr.)
- Robert Siodmak In Black And White (Jean Pierre Coursodon)
- Marc Lawrence: The Last Gangster (Lee Server)
- The Making Of The Naked City (Malvin Wald)
- Daniel Mainwaring: An Interview (Tom Flinn)
- Out Of The Past (Tom Flinn)
- From The Nightmare Factory: HUAC And The Politics Of Noir (Philip Kemp)
- If You Don't Get Killed It's A Lucky Day: A Conversation With Abraham Polonsky (Lee Server)
- The Novel And Films Of Night And The City (Paul Duncan)
- Phil Karlson: Dreams And Dead Ends (Jack Shadoian)
- The Thieves' Market: A.I. Bezzerides In Hollywood (Lee Server)
- The Welles Touch: Charlton Heston On Orson Welles (James Delson)
- Spy Vs. Spy: John Huston And The Kremlin Letter (Peter Richards)
- From The Big Sleep To The Long Goodbye (Leigh Brackett)
- Kill Me Again: The Rise Of Nouveau Noir (Stephen Hunter)
- True Confessions (Jon L. Breen)
- The Black List: Essential Film Noir (Lee Server)
- Cornell George Hopley Woolrich (Barry N. Malzberg))
- Con (Don Yates))
- My Friend Fredric Brown (Walt Sheldon)
- Warning! Warning! Hitchhikers May Be Escaped Lunatics! (Stephen King)
- Golden Harvest: Twenty-Five-Cent Paperbacks (Ed Gorman)
- Forgotten Writers: Gil Brewer (Bill Pronzini)
- Harry Whittington (Bill Crider)
- John D. Macdonald (Ed Gorman)
- I Kill 'Em Inch By Inch! (Steve Holland)
- Lion Books: Noir Paperback Icons (Gary Lovisi)
- An Interview With Arnold Hano (George Tuttle)
- Mecca Spillane (Max Allan Collins)
- Se?rie Noire (Etienne Borgers)
- Lew Archer As Culture Maven (Burton Kendle)
- Fifteen Impressions Of Charles Williams (Ed Gorman)
- A Too Brief Conversation With Peter Rabe (George Tuttle)
- Dell First Editions (Bill Crider)
- Interview With Donald Westlake (Charles L.P. Silet)
- Chester Himes: America's Black Heartland (James Stallis)
- Donald Hamilton (Robert Skinner)
- Highsmith's Ripley From Villain To Vigilante (Noel Mawer)
- Not Herself Mean: Hard-Boiled And Female, Without Contradiction (Dulcy Brainard)
- From Under Hammett's Mask (Dick Lochte)
- Charles Willeford: An Interview (Sybil Steinberg)
- Fresh Blood: British Neo-Noir (Mike Ripley And Maxim Jakubowski)
- Larry Block (James Sallis)
- Who's In The Room (Bill Crider)
- Author Notes (Jon L. Breen)
- Authors (Ed Gorman And Lee Server)
- Comic Book Noir (Ron Goulart)
- Radio Noir (William Nadel)
- Howard Duff And The Adventures Of Sam Spade (Mark Dawidziak)
- Jack Webb: TV's Noir Auteur (Max Allan Collins)
- Shadows In Your Living Room: Peter Gunn, Johnny Staccato, And The Lost Age Of TV Noir (Lee Server)
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