31 October 2018

No, Harlequin Halloween Horror Will Never End!


A Killer is Loose Among Us
Robert Terrall
Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1949

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Posted by Brian Busby at 12:00 AM
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  1. J F Norris31 October, 2018 15:17

    A mad scientist crime novel? Looks like a chem lab in the background. Terrall wrote a helluva lot of books and even more stories for pulp magazines. He wrote under multiple pseudonyms as well as his own name. From 1959 to about 1977 he became the second "Brett Halliday" and continued the Mike Shayne series after Davis Dresser gave up writing to help run Torquil Publishing which he and his wife Helen McCloy founded.

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    1. Brian Busby31 October, 2018 16:41

      Thanks, John. Must admit I knew nothing about the author.

      A mad scientist crime novel? I too wanted to know. A seventy-year-and-three-day-old number of Kirkus (28 Oct 1948) informs that it is indeed about a mad scientist... Well, murderous, anyway:

      Tension and terror for the story of an army experimental laboratory in the south, and a project - headed by scientists Tom and Sullivan - involved in the incubation of deadly disease organisms. It is Sullivan's wife, whom Tom loves, and the theft of some bubonic bacteria which directs Tom's fevered and misguided probe of Sullivan, motivates his murder of his partner, ends in the revelation that the killer who is loose is himself. Shock and scare values, in considerable concentration.

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