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Post by dem bones on Feb 29, 2008 20:34:38 GMT
The Gordons - Experiment In Terror (Corgi, 1962) blurb: As she got into the car, a strong, gloved hand slipped about her neck. A man’s voice said: “I’m not going to harm you. I just want to talk. Just sit where you are, but don’t try anything. I’ve got a gun on you - and they say I’ve got a trigger temper when I’m crossed.”
She tried to see his face in the rear-view mirror, but it was dark in the garage with the doors closed.
“What do you want?” she asked, her throat dry.
“You, Miss Sherwood. You.”
Experiment In Terror is now filmed, starring Glenn Ford and Lee Remick. A Geoffrey-Kate production for Columbia Pictures. Produced and directed by Blake Edwards. Another from the scary 'to read' pile. The work of Mildred Gordon and the splendidly named Gordon Gorden and originally published by MacDonald as Operation Terror the previous year. Has anyone had the pleasure?
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Post by pulphack on Feb 29, 2008 20:47:40 GMT
It looks great. the only Gordens that I've read are the two Undercover Cat books, in which a moggy is recruited to act as an FBI agent - no, really: he's used to bug villains. And we get some of the story from his POV! Disney ruined it, but the books are really good.
I think Gorden Gorden did work for the FBI at some point in his life, and their books were mostly crime and spy thrillers that were hot on detail of FBI procedure. Read that on some crime fiction site, but can't recall where offhand.
There are very few husband and wife teams - the only other one I can think of are GDH and M Cole, who wrote a lot of crime fiction through the forties that I recall in old green Penguins. Bizarrely, they were also socialists who were better known for their socialogical research and books on social problems.
There's a moral in there somewhere...
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Post by dem bones on Feb 29, 2008 20:58:13 GMT
... and there's also the biggest bastard spoiler I've ever read in a second blurb on page 3! Absolutely outrageous!
As to the FBI, that's who the heroine must try and establish contact with if she's to survive the novel (which she will. because the blurb has told me everything that's gonna happen, including he end. I'm impressed!)
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Post by pulphack on Mar 7, 2008 9:55:45 GMT
The Gordon's cat books are Undercover Cat and Undercover Cat Prowls Again; the first was retitled That Darn Cat after the Disney movie. Not horror by a long chalk, but indicative of the writers as a whole. Very wry.
Now then, if they'd had Undercover Cat involved in the terror experiment, we could have had a proto-Uncanny on our hands. That might have been worth reading, and any spoiler blurbs would only have whetted the appetite (along the lines of 'they've got to be kidding'...).
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