Lionel White


Lionel White was an American journalist and crime novelist, several of whose dark, noirish stories were made into films. Also known as L.W. Blanco, White had been a crime reporter and began writing suspense novels in the 1950s. His more than 35 books were all translated into several languages. His earlier novels were published as Gold Medal crime fiction, but when E. P. Dutton began a line of mystery and suspense books, he also wrote for them. He was best known as what a New York Times review called "the master of the big caper."
White's novels included Clean Break, Obsession, The Money Trap, The Snatchers, and Rafferty, adapted by 1980 Soviet Lenfilm production of the same title. Seven years after White's death, director Quentin Tarantino credited him, among others, as an inspiration in his 1992 film Reservoir Dogs.

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