![]() Bless her soul, Kathryn Whittington did not care at all for these “adult” paperbacks her husband had written in the mid-1960s. The stumbling block, we now know in hindsight, was Mrs. That person proved to be David Laurence Wilson. I was hoping some intrepid researcher would pounce on that gap in the Whittington checklist. When I did a Whittington checklist back in 1995, I mentioned the 39 and the “stone wall” I hit asking Whittington's widow and children for help. These 39 unknown books became “the missing 39” for Whittington collectors. I wrote one of these novels a month for 39 months.” “ I signed, in 1964, to do a 60,000-word novel a month for a publisher under his house names. In that piece, Whittington revealed this: Black Lizard used it as an introduction to the 1987-88 reprints of six classic hardboiled crime stories, originally published by Gold Medal and others. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1986, the prolific “king of the paperbacks” Harry Whittington (1915-1989) wrote an essay about his writing career entitled “I Remember It Well” for Black Lizard Books. ![]()
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