Marvin Albert

Marvin H. Albert, (22 January 1924 Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA – 24 March 1996 Menton, France) was a writer of mystery, crime and adventure novels including ones featuring Pete (Pierre-Ange [French: Stone Angel) Sawyer, a French-American private investigator living and working in France.

During World War II Albert served in the US Merchant Marine and began writing full time over the success of his 1956 Western novel The Law and Jake Wade. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms such as Albert Conroy, Ian McAlister, Nick Quarry and Anthony Rome. Settings for his novels include France (where he lived for some time), Miami and the Old West.

Novels

• Apache Rising (1957) filmed as Duel at Diablo (1966)
• The Bounty Killer (1958) filmed as The Ugly Ones (1966)
• The Looters (1961) filmed as Estouffade à la Caraïbe (1966)

Tony Rome novels

• Miami Mayhem (1960) filmed as Tony Rome (1967)
• The Lady in Cement (1961) filmed as Lady in Cement (1968)
• My Kind of Game (1962)

Stone Angel Series, featuring Pete Sawyer

• The Don is Dead (1972)
• The Dark Goddess (1978)
• Stone Angel (1986)
• Back in the Real World (1986)
• Get Off at Babylon (1987)
• Long Teeth (1987)
• The Last Smile (1988)
• The Midnight Sister (1989)
• Bimbo Heaven (1990)
• The Zig-Zag Man (1991)
• The Riviera Contract (1992)

Non fiction works

• The Long White Road a biography of the Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton
• Broadsides and Boarders a history of great sea captains
• The Divorce about Henry VIII.

Film novelizations

• Party Girl (1958)
• All the Young Men (1960)
• Move Over Darling (1963)
• The Pink Panther (1964)
• The Outrage (1964)
• What's New, Pussycat? (1965)
• The Untouchables (1987)

External links

• http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Marvin-Albert.html
• http://www.mysteryfile.com/GM_Albert/goldmedal_albert.html