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Lionel White


Born
in Buffalo, New York, The United States
July 09, 1905

Died
December 26, 1985

Genre


Lionel White was a crime reporter who wrote around 38 suspenseful thrillers beginning with The Snatchers in 1953 and ending with The Walled Yard in 1978.

Most of his books were translated into a number of different languages and his earlier novels were published as Gold Medal pulp hard-boiled crime fiction, but when Duttons began a line of mystery and suspense books, he also wrote for them.

He was most well known for what a New York Times review described as "the master of the big caper."

A number of his books were made into movies and Stanley Kubrick liked his book 'Clean Break' (1955) so much that he licensed the rights for his film "The Killing" in 1956.

In Quentin Tarantino's film "Reservoir Dogs", Lionel White is listed as an inspiration
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The Killing

3.95 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1955 — 31 editions
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The Big Caper

3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1955 — 14 editions
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The Snatchers / Clean Break

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Invitation to Violence

3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1958 — 13 editions
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Hostage for a Hood

3.63 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1957 — 9 editions
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The Snatchers

3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1953
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The House Next Door

3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1956 — 9 editions
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Obsession

3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1963 — 6 editions
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“In the years before Stanley Kubrick became Stanley Kubrick, the man had been a photographer by trade as well as an avid student of film. He had made two small feature films, almost completely by himself, with the second, Killer’s Kiss, being the more notable and successful. It was a small film but its tone and style, especially done on a self-financed shoestring budget, caught the eye of United Artists. The best thing to come from that film was that UA told Kubrick that when he came up with something else, they’d like to take a look at it. Alexander Singer, who later”
Lionel White, The Snatchers / Clean Break

“White did try his hand at a few stories outside of actual noir. At the beginning of his career, his first book appeared as a Rainbow Books digest magazine called Seven Hungry Men! in 1952. The cover featured several taboos of the time, including a shirtless black man playing with a knife, a nasty expression on his face, alone in a cabin with a haughty white women wearing a high-slitted skirt and tipping a bottle of booze. The back cover is almost equally scandalous—it shows a black and white photograph of a woman resembling the one from the front cover wearing nothing but a matching set of underwear and a wide open lacy peignoir. Shocking stuff for 1952’s America.”
Lionel White, The Snatchers / Clean Break

“Get WNEW,â€� Dent said. “That’s the news station, and they’d be the first to have it if there’s anything.”
Lionel White, The Snatchers / Clean Break

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