- Max Catto
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Maxwell Jeffrey Catto (July 29, 1907 - March 12, 1992) was born Mark Finkell in Manchester, England and was an English playwright and novelist.
Writing career
Catto wrote adventure novels and dramas for more than four decades and also wrote under the pseudonym Simon Kent. Ten of his works were adapted for film, the most notable of which was the novel The Killing Frost, which became Carol Reed's 1956 film Trapeze. Although he was a holder of a degree in electrical engineering from Manchester University, Catto began writing novels and plays in the late 1930s. After a stint in the Royal Air Force during World War II, Catto returned to writing fiction. Exotic settings and fast-paced action were the trademarks of his novels, defying categorization into any one genre, instead blending elements of many popular literary styles. Much of his work has been translated into other languages.
Works
The following bibliography is reproduced from Contemporary Authors, Volume 137.
Novels:
River Junk - Arthur Barker, 1937
The Hairy Man - M. Secker, 1939
Ginger Charley - M. Secker, 1939
The Flanagan Boy - Harrap, 1949
The Killing Frost - Heinemann, 1950, published as Trapeze, Landsborough, 1959
The Sickle - Heinemann, 1952
The Mummers - Heinemann, 1953
A Prize of Gold - Heinemann, 1953
Gold In The Sky - Heinemann, 1956, Morrow, 1958
The Devil at Four O'Clock - Heinemann, 1958, Morrow, 1959
The Melody Of Sex - Heinemann, 1959, Morrow, 1960
Mister Moses - Morrow, 1961
D-Day In Paradise - Heinemann, 1963, Morrow, 1964
The Tiger In The Bed - Morrow, 1963
I Have Friends In Heaven - Heinemann, 1965, Little, Brown, 1966
Love From Venus - Heinemann, 1965
Bird On The Wing - Heinemann, 1966
The Banana Men - Simon & Schuster, 1967
Murphy's War - Simon & Schuster, 1969
King Oil - Simon & Schuster, 1970
The Fattest Bank In New Orleans - Heinemann, 1971
Sam Casanova - Heinemann, 1973, Signet, 1977
Mister Midas - M. Joseph, 1976
The Empty Tiger - St. Martin's, 1977
Novels Under Pseudonym Simon Kent:
Fleur-de-Lys Court - Heinemann, 1950
The Doctor On Bean Street - Crowell, 1952 (published in England as For The Love Of Doc, Heinemann, 1952)
A Hill in Korea - Hutchinson, 1953
Fire Down Below - Hutchinson, 1954
Ferry to Hong Kong - Hutchinson, 1957
The Lions At The Kill - Hutchinson, 1959
Charlie Gallagher My Love! - Hutchinson, 1960, Macmillan, 1961
Categories:- 1909 births
- 1992 deaths
- English novelists
- English short story writers
- English thriller writers
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