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Harry Whittington (1915–1989)

Author of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Doomsday Affair

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Works by Harry Whittington

Web of Murder (1958) 62 copies
The Devil Wears Wings (1960) 45 copies
Fires That Destroy (1951) 43 copies
Forgive Me, Killer (1956) 37 copies
You'll Die Next! (1982) 36 copies
A Ticket to Hell (1959) 32 copies
A Moment to Prey (1988) 28 copies
A Night for Screaming (1960) 14 copies
Desert Stake-Out (1961) 12 copies
Vengeance (1952) 12 copies
Hell Can Wait (1956) 10 copies
One Deadly Dawn (2012) 9 copies
Bonanza: Treachery Trail (1968) 9 copies
Charro! (1969) 9 copies
A Haven for the Damned (1963) 9 copies
The Brass Monkey (1951) 8 copies
Brute in Brass (1956) 8 copies
Slay Ride For a Lady (1951) 7 copies
Desire in the Dust (1994) 7 copies
Heat of Night (2012) 7 copies
Saddle the Storm (1989) 7 copies
Strangers on Friday (1900) 7 copies
The Woman is Mine (1954) 6 copies
High Fury (1970) 5 copies
Drawn to Evil (2012) 5 copies
Die, Lover 4 copies
Guerilla Girls (1961) 4 copies
One Got Away / Shady Lady (1955) 4 copies
Rampage (1978) 3 copies
Trouble Rides Tall (2017) 3 copies
Hangrope Town (1964) 3 copies
Hot As Fire, Cold As Ice (1962) 3 copies
Play for keeps (1957) 3 copies
The Wild Seed (2012) 3 copies
Any Woman He Wanted (2014) 3 copies
Vengeance Is the Spur (1961) 3 copies
69 Babylon Park (1962) 2 copies
Temptations of "Valerie" (1957) 2 copies
Cross the Red Creek (1964) 2 copies
Please, Wherever You Are (1957) 2 copies
Le Diable a des ailes (1987) 2 copies
Murder is my Mistress (1951) 2 copies
Something's Got to Give (1958) 2 copies
Le salaire du diable (1958) 2 copies
Lisa (Backwoods Hussy) (1965) 2 copies
Halfway to hell (1959) 2 copies
Journey Into Violence (1961) 2 copies
Married to Murder (1959) 2 copies
Connolly's Woman (1960) 2 copies
Rebel Woman (1960) 2 copies
Prime Sucker 2 copies
The Humming Box 2 copies
Backwoods Shack (1954) 1 copy
La donna è mia. (1956) 1 copy
Boîte à moustiques (1996) 1 copy
Black Lizard 1 copy
Le Pré aux vaches (1961) 1 copy
Strip the Town Naked (1960) 1 copy
Army Girl (1962) 1 copy
Murhavekko 1 copy
Swamp Kill 1 copy
The Strange Young Wife (1963) 1 copy
Cora is a Nympho (1963) 1 copy
A Woman Possessed (1961) 1 copy
La panne fantôme (1996) 1 copy
Native Girl 1 copy
Nita's Place (1960) 1 copy
Sicilian Woman (1979) 1 copy
Valley of Savage Men (1991) 1 copy
T'as des visions ! (1957) 1 copy
mille bolle 1 copy

Associated Works

The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1987) — Contributor — 219 copies

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This is a novelization of a film intended to be a blockbuster. The film failed, and the book is not much of an effort to be better. The story concentrates on the transfer of pwer after the death of Marcus Aurelius to the incompetent hands of commodus. The intent was to outline the overwhelming failure of the empire to remain undamaged in the face of incompetence at the top. It really skates over that weakness in favoour of a very pallid love affair.
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ChrisAllan | 2 other reviews | Aug 21, 2019 |
You'll Die Next! offers what is best about noir fiction. A fast paced plot, ordinary people in extraordinary situations, beautiful (and often dangerous) dames, lots of thugs, and a tons of gunplay. This thin volume is full of the overblown prose and tough guy parlance that littered the literary landscape of the 1950s.


Pinky sifted his coat up on his heavy shoulders. Henry saw him as a dangerous man gone to lard. Pinky wasn’t much taller than his blind enemy. He was somewhere between forty and fifty. He had black greasy hair. His puffy face would smile at you while he knifed you in the back.

Henry stirred and Pinky’s gun jerked nervously. Pinky said, “Stand still, chump. I got other troubles right now. I’ll get around to you.”




Whittington is no Chandler but his writing is easy and knowledgeable all at the same time. At no point does the prose detract from the plot. And plot is what this is all about. Whittington keeps the reader on the edge of their seat as the action unfolds and twists in ways that most of us haven’t thought of
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rickklaw | 1 other review | Oct 13, 2017 |
Often called the king of the paperbacks, Harry Whittington wrote literally hundreds of books in the fifties and sixties under a variety of pseudonyms. His books are always great to read, pulpy, filled with great characters. A Haven For the Damned follows the tried and true idea of placing a bunch of mismatched characters in an isolated location and see what happens. It's sort of like a mystery weekend in the Poconos without the mysterious murder and without the inspector lining up all the suspects in the drawing room to hear him reveal who-done-it. In this story, Whittington combines a cranky old uranium prospector, the meanest dog north of the Rio Grande, a pair of bank robbers with bags of loot, a local couple with one of them suffering from a nasty bullet wound, a man red-eyed from driving nonstop across state lines, and a speed racing millionaire and his skanky young bride. With thousands of dollars in loot, a town called lust, and half the state's troopers searching, what you get from Whittington is one helluva story.… (more)
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