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Gil Brewer
BornGilbert Brewer
November 20, 1922
Canandaigua, New York, United States
DiedJanuary 9, 1983(1983-01-09) (aged 60)
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime

Gilbert "Gil" Brewer was an American novel and short story author.[1] He was born November 20, 1922 in Canandaigua, New York.[citation needed]

After leaving the army at the end of World War II, Brewer joined his family who had settled in St. Petersburg, Florida.[citation needed] There he met Verlaine in 1947 and married her soon after. Brewer started by writing serious novels, but soon turned to pulp paperbacks after a sale to Gold Medal Books in 1950. At one point, he had five books on the stands. Unwilling to promote himself, his career took a turn for the worse after a mental breakdown, and a long decline into alcoholism.[citation needed] Brewer died on January 9, 1983.[citation needed]

Works

Novels

  • Satan Is a Woman (Gold Medal - 1951)
  • So Rich, So Dead (Gold Medal - 1951)
  • 13 French Street (Gold Medal - 1951)
  • Flight to Darkness (Gold Medal - 1952)
  • Hell's Our Destination (Gold Medal - 1953)
  • A Killer Is Loose (Gold Medal - 1954)
  • Some Must Die (Gold Medal - 1954)
  • 77 Rue Paradis (Gold Medal - 1954)
  • The Squeeze (Ace Double - 1955)
  • And the Girl Screamed (Crest - 1956)
  • The Angry Dream (Mystery House - 1957)
  • The Brat (Gold Medal - 1957)
  • Little Tramp (Crest - 1957)
  • The Bitch (Avon - 1958)
  • The Red Scarf (Mystery House - 1958)
  • Wild (Crest - 1958)
  • The Vengeful Virgin (Crest - 1958)
  • The Girl from Hateville (Zenith - 1958)
  • Wild to Possess (Monarch - 1959)
  • Sugar (Avon - 1959)
  • Nude on Thin Ice (Avon - 1960)
  • Angel (Avon - 1960)
  • Backwoods Teaser (Gold Medal - 1960)
  • The Three-Way Split (Gold Medal - 1960)
  • Play it Hard (Monarch - 1960)
  • Appointment in Hell (Monarch - 1961)
  • A Taste for Sin (Berkley - 1961)
  • Memory of Passion (Lancer - 1963)
  • The Hungry One (Gold Medal - 1966)
  • The Tease (Banner - 1967)
  • Sin for Me (Banner - 1967)

—and three original TV tie-in novels—

  • It Takes a Thief #1: The Devil in Davos (Ace - 1969)
  • It Takes a Thief #2: Mediterranean Caper (Ace - 1969)
  • It Takes a Thief #3: Appointment in Cairo (Ace - 1970)

Short story collections

References

  1. ^ Morgan, Chris (2013-08-04). "The Brutalist: A Gil Brewer Retrospective". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2015-11-04.


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