· The Name of the Game Is Death / One Endless Hour by Dan J. Marlowe. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Start by marking “The Name of the Game Is Death / One Endless Hour” as Want to Read: Want to Read. saving. Want to Read. Currently Reading. Read/5. Dan J. Marlowe (), the author of The Name of the Game is Death, was widely praised in his day, but never achieved breakthrough status as a writer because he developed amnesia late in life. Marlowe, much admired as a writer by a real bank robber, Al Nussbaum, was urged by Nussbaum to try to regain his memory and to continue writing/5(59). Marlowe's most famous book and his best-known character arrived from Fawcett Gold Medal Books in ("The Name of the Game Is Death"). aka Albert Avellano, Jaime Sandaval, Gar Wilson (house name) Dan J. Marlowe was a middle-aged businessman who, in the personal turmoil after the death of his wife of many years, decided to abandon his old life.4/5.
July USA Paperback. Title: The name of the game is death. Author (s): Dan J Marlowe. ISBN: / (USA edition) Publisher: Distributed by Creative Arts Book Co. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA. The Name Of The Game Is Death Dan J. Marlowe ( - ) was an American writer of crime fiction. Gunshots in Another Room: The Forgotten Life of Dan J. Marlowe () by Charles Kelly, tells the story of Marlowe, his amnesia, his involvements with bank robber Albert Frederick Nussbaum and with murderer Bobby Randell Wilcoxson. Dan J Marlowe. (Dan James Marlowe) ( - ) aka Albert Avellano, Jaime Sandaval. Dan J. Marlowe was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His mother died when he was young and he was raised by two aunts. After graduating from the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, he worked as a County Club assistant manager and a timekeeper.
The Name of the Game is Death is indeed hard-boiled heaven. It features an antihero you root for even though you know he’d take your head off if you got in his way, some purely evil characters whose heads you hope the antihero will take off, other, more likable people, raw sex, retribution, suspense. Originally published in as a Fawcett Gold Medal title, reprinted by Black Lizard in ’88 and due to be brought back out (as a 2-for-1, with another Dan J. Marlowe title) by Stark. “Nobody wrote tougher prose than Dan J. Marlowe. Nobody,” according to Barry Gifford. In his legendary Black Lizard series Barry Gifford made The Name of the Game Is Death and three other Marlowe novels available to the American public of the 80s, thus also re-discovering him for many former readers. Although Marlowe’s books have been out of print for several years now, the reputation of his gangster-hero remains unbroken among fans of hard-boiled crime stories. The Name of the Game Is Death, by Dan J. Marlowe. Dan J. Marlowe’s The Name of the Game Is Death (later renamed Operation Overkill) is a very dark crime novel with one of the more memorable anti-heroes in the genre. The first person narrator (who has so many aliases he probably doesn’t know his real name himself) is a bank robber.
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