Writer
December 24, 1906 – February 6, 1985
Credits:
A Can of Worms (1979); A
Coffin from Hong Kong (1962); A Lotus for Miss Quon (1961); An Ace Up My Sleeve
(1971); An Ear to the Ground (1968); Believe This, You'll Believe Anything
(1975); Believed Violent (1968); Blonde's Requiem (1946); But a Short Time to
Live (1951); Cade (1966); Come Easy, Go Easy (1960); Come Easy, Go Easy / Cade
/ My Laugh Comes Last (1993); Consider Yourself Dead (1978); Do Me a Favour,
Drop Dead (1976); Double Shuffle / Shock Treatment / Tell it to the Birds (1974);
Eve (1945); Figure It Out for Yourself (1950); Get a Load of This (1941); Goldfish
Have No Hiding Place (1974); Hand Me a Fig Leaf (1981); Have a Change of Scene
(1973); Have a Nice Night (1982); Have This One On Me (1967); He Won't Need It
Now (1939); Hit and Run (1958); Hit Them Where It Hurts (1985); I Hold the Four
Aces (1977); I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962); I'll Bury My Dead (1953); I'll
Get You for This (1946); In a Vain Shadow (1951); Just a Matter of Time (1972);
Just Another Sucker (1961); Just the Way It Is (1944); Knock, Knock! Who's
There? (1973); Lady, Here's Your Wreath (1940); Last Page (1946); Lay Her Among
the Lilies (1950); Like a Hole in the Head (1970); Make the Corpse Walk (1946);
Mallory (1950); Meet Mark Girland (1977); Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief (1941);
Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (1944); Mission to Siena (1955); Mission to Venice
(1954); More Deadly Than the Male (1946); My Laugh Comes Last (1977); Never
Trust a Woman (1957); No Business of Mine (1947); No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939);
Not My Thing (1983); Not Safe to Be Free (1958); One Bright Summer Morning
(1963); Ruthless (1955); Safer Dead (1954); Shock Treatment (1959); Slipstream
(1946); So Soon To Die (1975); So What Happens to Me? (1974); Strictly for Cash
(1951); Tell It to the Birds (1963); The Dead Stay Dumb (1939); The Doll's Bad
News (1940); The Double Shuffle (1952); The Fast Buck (1952); The Flesh of the
Orchid (1948); The Guilty Are Afraid (1957); The Joker in the Pack (1975); The
Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Mirror in Room 22
(1946); The Paw in the Bottle (1949); The Pickup (1955); The Soft Centre (1964);
The Sucker Punch (1954); The Things Men Do (1953); The Vulture Is a Patient
Bird (1969); The Wary Transgressor (1952); The Way the Cookie Crumbles (1965); The
Whiff of Money (1969); The World in My Pocket (1959); There's a Hippie On the
Highway (1970); There's Always a Price Tag (1956); This Is for Real (1965); This
Way for a Shroud (1953); Three of Spades (1974); Tiger By the Tail (1954); Trusted
Like the Fox (1948); Try This One for Size (1980); Want to Stay Alive? (1971); Well
Now, My Pretty (1967); We'll Share a Double Funeral (1982); What's Better Than
Money? (1960); Why Pick On Me? (1951); You Can Say That Again (1980); You Find
Him, I'll Fix Him (1956); You Have Yourself a Deal (1966); You Must Be Kidding
(1979); You Never Know with Women (1949); You're Dead Without Money (1972); You're
Lonely When You're Dead (1949); You've Got It Coming (1955).