Lionel White


Lionel White was an American journalist and crime novelist, several of whose dark, noirish stories were made into films. His books include The Snatchers, The Money Trap, Clean Break, and Obsession and by the Finnish director Seppo Huunonen for the 1974 film The Hair and Rafferty, adapted by 1980 Soviet Lenfilm production of the same title.
White had been a crime reporter and began writing suspense novels in the 1950s. He wrote more than 35 books, all translated into a number of different languages. His earlier novels were published as Gold Medal crime fiction, but when Duttons began a line of mystery and suspense books, he also wrote for them. He was most well known as what a New York Times review described as "the master of the big caper."
Seven years after White's death, director Quentin Tarantino credited him, among others, as an inspiration in his 1992 film Reservoir Dogs.

Novels

  • Seven Hungry Men!
  • The Snatchers
  • To Find a Killer
  • The Big Caper
  • Clean Break
  • Flight into Terror
  • Love Trap
  • Operation - Murder
  • The House Next Door
  • A Right for Murder
  • Death Takes the Bus
  • Hostage for a Hood
  • Coffin for a Hood
  • Invitation to Violence
  • Too Young to Die
  • Rafferty
  • Run, Killer, Run!
  • The Merriweather File
  • Steal Big
  • Lament for a Virgin
  • Marilyn K.
  • The Time of Terror
  • A Death at Sea
  • A Grave Undertaking
  • Obsession
  • The Money Trap
  • The Ransomed Madonna
  • The House on K Street
  • A Party to Murder
  • The Mind Poisoners
  • The Crimshaw Memorandum
  • The Night of the Rape
  • Hijack
  • Death of a City
  • A Rich and Dangerous Game
  • The Mexico Run
  • Jailbreak
  • The Walled Yard