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Stone Angel #9
The Riviera Contract
Private eye Peter Sawyer must locate and bring back alive Sandrine Tally, the beautiful woman who left a bullet-ridden body in her apartment in order to escape from a group of international thugs. A Stone Angel book originally published under Al Conroy.
Mass Market Paperback
First published November 23, 1992
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Marvin H. Albert
123 books20 followersAlso wrote under the names Mike Barone, Albert Conroy, Ian MacAlister, Nick Quarry, Anthony Rome, Al Conroy, Marvin Albert
"Marvin H. Albert, the author of more than 100 westerns, mysteries, spy novels and works of history, died on March 24 in Menton, in the south of France. He was 73 and lived in Mont Segur-sur-Lauzon.
The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter, Jan.
Mr. Albert was born in Philadelphia and served as a radio officer in the Merchant Marine during World War II. After working as the director of a children's theater troupe in Philadelphia, he moved to New York in 1950 and began writing and editing for the magazines Quick and Look. He turned to writing full time after the success of his novel "The Law and Jake Wade" (1956).
In addition to popular westerns, mysteries and novelizations of Hollywood films, he wrote "The Long White Road," a biography of the Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, "Broadsides and Boarders," a history of great sea captains, and "The Divorce," about Henry VIII. He wrote novels under his own name and under the pseudonyms Albert Conroy, Al Conroy, Nick Quarry, Anthony Rome, Ian MacAlister and J. D. Christilian."
By WILLIAM GRIMES
"Marvin H. Albert, the author of more than 100 westerns, mysteries, spy novels and works of history, died on March 24 in Menton, in the south of France. He was 73 and lived in Mont Segur-sur-Lauzon.
The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter, Jan.
Mr. Albert was born in Philadelphia and served as a radio officer in the Merchant Marine during World War II. After working as the director of a children's theater troupe in Philadelphia, he moved to New York in 1950 and began writing and editing for the magazines Quick and Look. He turned to writing full time after the success of his novel "The Law and Jake Wade" (1956).
In addition to popular westerns, mysteries and novelizations of Hollywood films, he wrote "The Long White Road," a biography of the Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, "Broadsides and Boarders," a history of great sea captains, and "The Divorce," about Henry VIII. He wrote novels under his own name and under the pseudonyms Albert Conroy, Al Conroy, Nick Quarry, Anthony Rome, Ian MacAlister and J. D. Christilian."
By WILLIAM GRIMES
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March 8, 2023
And so I come to the end of my 2nd reading of all the books in the Stone Angel series. When I was a (much) younger man with a lot of sap flowing in the veins, I’d loved these books and undoubtedly would have given them higher ratings on Goodreads - if there’d been a Goodreads in those days of yore! All these years later, the fires are banked way lower (a few brightly glowing coals, though!), and I find these all a bit too overweight in the action department, and lacking in the intellectual area, but still compellingly written.
This final Pete Sawyer episode was published in 1992 and Marvin Albert passed away in 1996, possibly the last thing he wrote in a long and prolific career, so perhaps his fires were then banked low as well. In point of fact his demise was March 25 of 1996 in Menton, France on his beloved Riviera, I’ll be sure to hoist a glass of good red French wine this March 25th to acknowledge him.
Here, Sawyer rescues a young lady from a ticklish spot, and inadvertently involves himself in the machinations of a deposed South American dictator living in exile on the Riviera; when young Manon Jabot and her mentor Sandrine Tally (a well-known “escort” to the rich and idle on the French Riviera) both must go on the run to escape hit squads from the former dictator’s enemies, Pete is called on to extract them from peril safely. This he does, with the requisite amount of fists swung and guns fired. Tally ho, Stone Angel!
This final Pete Sawyer episode was published in 1992 and Marvin Albert passed away in 1996, possibly the last thing he wrote in a long and prolific career, so perhaps his fires were then banked low as well. In point of fact his demise was March 25 of 1996 in Menton, France on his beloved Riviera, I’ll be sure to hoist a glass of good red French wine this March 25th to acknowledge him.
Here, Sawyer rescues a young lady from a ticklish spot, and inadvertently involves himself in the machinations of a deposed South American dictator living in exile on the Riviera; when young Manon Jabot and her mentor Sandrine Tally (a well-known “escort” to the rich and idle on the French Riviera) both must go on the run to escape hit squads from the former dictator’s enemies, Pete is called on to extract them from peril safely. This he does, with the requisite amount of fists swung and guns fired. Tally ho, Stone Angel!
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