Titre : | Lydia |
Auteurs : | E.V. Cunningham |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | Droemer Knaur, 1969 |
Format : | 208 pages / Illustré / 19x12 cm |
Langues: | Allemand |
Résumé : |
A $250,000 diamond necklace vanishes. Insurance investigator Harvey Krim's assignment is to find it-with the promise of a big fat pot of gold if he can reach the end of the rainbow before the police.
The American author Howard Melvin Fast, who also went under the pen-names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson, managed to gain himself a strong and impressive legacy during his lifetime, with not just a long string of literary titles, but a number of Hollywood films inspired by his work as well. Writing for the television too, he had a very visual style that engaged the reader, along with his characters that allowed everyone to root for them, resonating well with his audience. Many of the books he wrote under the E.V. Cunningham title were comprised of women’s names such as ‘Sylvia’, along with his highly popular Masao Masuto Mysteries franchise too. Early and Personal Life Growing up in New York City to his mother Ida (nee Miller) who was a British immigrant, and his father, Barney Fast, who was a Ukrainian immigrant who’d had his name shortened from Fastovsky following his arrival in America, Howard Fast was born on the eleventh of November in 1914. After his mother died in 1923 and his father was made unemployed, he went on to sell newspapers with Jerome his older brother. It was during his time working part-time for the New York Public Library that he really got into reading and writing, as he would read voraciously during his time working there. Starting to write from an early age though, he went on to travel extensively for some time, as he went hitch-hiking and riding railroads all across the United States, gaining experience and undertaking a variety of odd jobs, all the while managing to write his first novel which was to be titled Two Valleys. Taking in all the sights and sounds, he brought a wealth of knowledge into his writing that really allowed him to develop his voice as an author. This then let him become a more adept writer as well, which in turn enabled him to carry on writing as he settled into his style and overall tone. |
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