Comments on: BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS >> These Colors Don’t Run http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-these-colors-dont-run/ reading material to get excited about Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:56:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Max Allan Collins http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-these-colors-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-58956 Max Allan Collins Thu, 07 May 2009 19:51:17 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7954#comment-58956 I wrote those books ten or twelve years before THE BIG CHILL came out, a movie I didn't particularly like then and still don't. (I do like BODY HEAT and even WYATT EARP from Kasdan, though.) The first two Mallorys were written for Curtis Books and sold to them in '71 and '72, but they never published 'em, getting swallowed up by Popular Library before they could. Pop Library put them into "inventory" and never put them out. When I got the rights back, I was able to sell them to Walker in the early '80s. I wrote those books ten or twelve years before THE BIG CHILL came out, a movie I didn’t particularly like then and still don’t. (I do like BODY HEAT and even WYATT EARP from Kasdan, though.)

The first two Mallorys were written for Curtis Books and sold to them in ’71 and ’72, but they never published ‘em, getting swallowed up by Popular Library before they could. Pop Library put them into “inventory” and never put them out. When I got the rights back, I was able to sell them to Walker in the early ’80s.

]]> By: Craig http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-these-colors-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-58954 Craig Thu, 07 May 2009 13:57:17 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7954#comment-58954 Cool! I like the Mallory books, but where Collins is really at his best is in his Nolan and Quarry series' and his Nate Heller books, which deal with real historical mysteries, like the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and whatever happened to Amelia Earhart (sp?). I love 'em all. I've got a big box full of Edward S. Aarons "Assignment" novels at my mom's cabin--will have to break one out and give it a try someday. Cool! I like the Mallory books, but where Collins is really at his best is in his Nolan and Quarry series’ and his Nate Heller books, which deal with real historical mysteries, like the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and whatever happened to Amelia Earhart (sp?). I love ‘em all. I’ve got a big box full of Edward S. Aarons “Assignment” novels at my mom’s cabin–will have to break one out and give it a try someday.

]]> By: Max Allan Collins http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-these-colors-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-58947 Max Allan Collins Thu, 07 May 2009 04:57:19 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7954#comment-58947 The first Mallory published was THE BABY BLUE RIP-OFF, but the second one published (NO CURE FOR DEATH) actually was written first, at the Writers Workshop in Iowa City, where my instructor (and mentor) was Richard Yates (REVOLUTIONARY ROAD). For the record, Mallory lived in a trailer long before Jim Rockford, but Rockford got onto TV slightly before Mallory hit print. The first Mallory published was THE BABY BLUE RIP-OFF, but the second one published (NO CURE FOR DEATH) actually was written first, at the Writers Workshop in Iowa City, where my instructor (and mentor) was Richard Yates (REVOLUTIONARY ROAD). For the record, Mallory lived in a trailer long before Jim Rockford, but Rockford got onto TV slightly before Mallory hit print.

]]> By: Glen Davis http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-these-colors-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-58938 Glen Davis Thu, 07 May 2009 01:14:54 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7954#comment-58938 The Mallory books are pretty good, but these days it seems like someone watched The Big Chill wayyyy to many times while writing it. The Mallory books are pretty good, but these days it seems like someone watched The Big Chill wayyyy to many times while writing it.

]]>