Dan J. Marlowe (1914-1986), author of The Name of the Game is
Death, was one of the finest paperback suspense novelists of the
1960s and 1970s, so good that Stephen King dedicated a book to him.
But Marlowe's life was full of strange drama, some featuring his
friendship with bank robber Al Nussbaum, a partner of the murderous
sociopath Bobby "One-Eye" Wilcoxson. This biography interweaves the
stories of Nussbaum, who became a mystery-story writer, Wilcoxson,
who committed a savage murder after being released from prison, and
Marlowe, who, stricken with amnesia, was haunted by the ghosts of
his past, some of whom roamed the world of kinky sex. Book contains
16 photos.
"Fantastic...This biography is almost as wild, compelling, dark
and surprising as one of Marlowe's books...Highly recommended "-Lee
Goldberg, author and TV writer/producer who has scripted Diagnosis:
Murder, Monk, Hunter and Spenser: For Hire.
"A brilliant biography of the great noir and hardboiled
paperbacker Dan J. Marlowe, written with novelistic flair by
Charles Kelly."--James Reasoner, celebrated western/mystery writer
and author of Texas Wind. Reasoner called Gunshots in Another Room
one of his ten favorite books of 2012.
"I still remember buying The Name of the Game is Death on a
metal spin rack when I was in college. No novel except They Shoot
Horses, Don't They? had ever shocked me to the same degree. Marlowe
had created a masterpiece. So has Charles Kelly."--Ed Gorman,
legendary mystery writer and editor of The Big Book of Noir.
"Kelly relates (the details of Marlowe's life) with a sharp and
sympathetic eye and a hardboiled style. Informative and
well-written, Gunshots in Another Room makes for quite a
story."--Woody Haut, author of Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and
the Cold War, Neon Noir, and Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of
Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood.
"For anyone interested in the history of crime fiction, or the
evolution and devolution of the paperback original industry,
Gunshots in Another Room is an indispensable volume."-Cullen
Gallagher, in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
"(The book) demonstrates impeccable (and imaginative) research,
perhaps not surprisingly since Kelly is an award-winning
journalist."-Marvin Lachman, author of A Reader's Guide to the
American Novel of Detection.
"Kelly's delight in his subject is so palpable that we feel his
excitement as if we're handling the material ourselves...His
biography unfolds like the best stories; truth that reads as
fiction, containing narrative drive, setups and plenty of payoffs
along the way, satisfying and literate."-Jessica Argyle, author of
Arrest Me (before I write again), on KeysNews.com.
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