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Lionel White

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born

January 01, 1905 in The United States

died

December 01, 1985

gender

male

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Lionel White was a crime reporter who wrote around 38 suspenseful thrillers beginning with 'The Snatchers' in 1953 and ending with 'The Walled Yard' in 1978.

Most of his books were translated into a number of different languages and his earlier novels were published as Gold Medal pulp hard-boiled crime fiction, but when Duttons began a line of mystery and suspense books, he also wrote for them.

He was most well known for what a New York Times review described as "the master of the big caper."

A number of his books were made into movies and Stanley Kubrick liked his book 'Clean Break' (1955), later re-released as 'The Killing' so much that he licensed the rights for his film 'The Killing' in 1956.

In Quentin Tarantino's film 'Reservoir Dogs',...more

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Books by Lionel White

Average rating: 3.84 · 49 ratings · 12 reviews · 15 distinct works

	The Killing 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1955 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Big Caper 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1955 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Flight Into Terror 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1955 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rapina A Mano Armata 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	The Money Trap 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1963	My rating:
	The Night of the Rape 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1967	My rating:
	The Crimshaw Memorandum 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1967	My rating:
	Death Takes the Bus -Canc 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1957 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Run, Killer, Run 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1952	My rating:
	Obsession 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1963	My rating: