10-28-2007, 10:58 PM
MysteryMind Wrote:Was it really a man?  What was his name?  I was going to give Dorothy Daniels another chance, perhaps one of the later books, to see if there are any improvements.  I recently picked up some books by her/him which looked to be more of the thriller/espionage type.
Here's a bibliographical entry on him. He wrote under many names, including Helen Gray Weston, which is not listed here. He was very prolific, writing mostly detective stories from what I can see. I believe his wife was named Dorothy, so there really was a "Dorothy Daniels," though he was the actual writer. "Marilyn Ross" was a similar situation. She really existed, but it was her husband, W.E.D. Ross who wrote the books. Marilyn was more of a secretary to him.
"DANIELS, NORMAN (A.) [born Norman Arthur Danberg] (1906-1995); see pseudonyms Dorothy Daniels, Grant Dell, Charles Alan Gregory, Frank Johnston, David M. Norman, Kirk Rand, Mark Reed & Jud Tally (chron.) "
