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), ''The Money Trap'' (made into a movie by Burt Kennedy starring

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), ''Clean Break'' (adapted by

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as the basis for his 1956 film '' The Killing''), ''Obsession'' (adapted by

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as the basis for his 1965 film '' Pierrot le fou'' and by the Finnish director Seppo Huunonen for the 1974 film '' The Hair''), and '' Rafferty'', adapted by 1980 Soviet

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production of the same title. White (also known as L.W. Blanco) 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

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crime fiction, but when Duttons began a line of mystery and suspense books, he also wrote for them. He was best known as what a ''

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'' review described as "the master of the big

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." Seven years after White's death, director

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Novels

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'' (1952) *''

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'' (1953) (filmed in 1968 as ''

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'') *'' To Find a Killer'' (also released as ''Before I Die'') (1954) *''The Big Caper'' (1955) (filmed in 1957 under the same title) *'' Clean Break'' (1955) (filmed in 1955 as '' The Killing'') *''Flight into Terror'' (1955) *''Love Trap'' (1955) *''

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'' (1956) *'' The House Next Door'' (1956) *'' A Right for Murder'' (1957) *'' Death Takes the Bus'' (1957) *'' Hostage for a Hood'' (1957) *'' Coffin for a Hood'' (1958) *'' Invitation to Violence'' (1958) *'' Too Young to Die'' (1958) *'' Rafferty'' (Soviet filmed in 1980 under the same title) *'' Run, Killer, Run!'' (1959) *'' The Merriweather File'' (1959) (televised in 1961 under the same name as an episode of ''

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'') *''

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'' (1960) *'' Lament for a Virgin'' (1960) *'' Marilyn K.'' (1960) *'' The Time of Terror'' (1960) *'' A Death at Sea'' (1961) *'' A Grave Undertaking'' (1961) *'' Obsession'' (1962) (filmed in 1965 as '' Pierrot le Fou,'' without credit; also filmed in 1974 as '' Karvat'') *''The Money Trap'' (1963) (filmed in 1965 under the same title) *'' The Ransomed Madonna'' (1964) *'' The House on K Street'' (1965) (not

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but a murder mystery; title references political corruption in general) *'' A Party to Murder'' (1966) *'' The Mind Poisoners'' (1966) (Killmaster novel begun under the Nick Carter pseudonym; Valerie Moolman took over and finished the novel) *'' The Crimshaw Memorandum'' (1967) *'' The Night of the Rape'' (1967) *'' Hijack'' (1969) *'' Death of a City'' (1970) *'' A Rich and Dangerous Game'' (1974) *'' The Mexico Run'' (1974) *''

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'' (1976) *'' The Walled Yard'' (1978)

References

External links

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Short bio
at Good Reads
List of writings, organized by date

Partial filmography
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