Edwin Raymond Corley (2 October 1931 in
Bayonne
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,
New Jersey
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– 7 November 1981 in
Gulfport,
Mississippi
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) was an American novelist most famous for his thrillers ''Sargasso'', ''Air Force One'', and ''
The Jesus Factor''. He used the pseudonyms "David Harper", "William Judson", and "Will Collins" and worked with novelist Jack Murphy, using the pseudonym "Patrick Buchanan" (unrelated to
Patrick Buchanan
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, the politician of the same name).
As "Patrick Buchanan", Corley and Murphy wrote a series of novels (''A Murder of Crows'', 1970; ''A Parliament of Owls'', 1971; ''A Requiem of Sharks'', 1973; and ''A Sounder of Swine'', 1974) featuring the character Charity Tucker, a tall, blonde, intelligent television reporter, who teamed with private investigator Ben Shock to investigate various murders.
Corley's
Hollywood
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-centered and partly factual novel, ''Shadows'' (1975), was the first work of fiction to feature
Dorothy Parker
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Parker ros ...
appearing as herself. Other major characters are
William Randolph Hearst
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, his paramour
Marion Davies
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, and
Vivien Leigh
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.
[Kinner, Arthur F. "The Other Dorothy Parkers". In Pettit, Rhonda S., ed. (2005)]
''The Critical Waltz: Essays on the Work of Dorothy Parker''
pp. 119-21. Associated University Presses.
References
External links
Select bibliography at Fantasticfiction.co.uk
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1931 births
1981 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
20th-century American male writers