Back from a week in cyber wilderness with Lawrence Arthur Goldstone better known by his pseudonym, Lawrence Treat. He was an American mystery writer, a pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals. Treat began his professional life as a lawyer and when his firm went south he decided to try his hand at crime writing. He sold his very first novel . In a career that would span seventy-plus years, Treat wrote several hundred short stories for mystery magazines and other publications. And just to show that his life and career was an unbroken string of success he was a member of the League of American Writers and served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact. Long before Sue Grafton made it her literary trademark Treat was mining the alphabet for titles. Starting with B As In Banshee (19040) and D As In Dead (1941) and ending with P As In Police (1970) Treat worked those 26 letters for many a title including T As In Trapped in 1947 in which Wayne Bannerman, in love with but unable to marry Martha until she can secure a divorce, finds himself framed and pretty thoroughly tied up when a chance pickup, Julie is murdered in his presence- and Marthas husband is a second victim. The blub bubbles over: “Here is a story in which the savage clash of passion and violence will fire your interest to fever pitch, and force you to keep a white-knuckled grip on the book until the last thrilling page has been turned.” The Avon version is from 1950 and the Commonwealth publisher Original Novels felt the sea foam coloured dress was not cutting it and went with red instead on its 1954 cover. There are some other subtle differences that flummox me. Someone please tell me who painted this cover and throw in some knowledge about the psychology of colour.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 03:42:16 +0000
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