Gunshots in Another Room: The Forgotten Life of Dan J. Marlowe

Does life imitate art? Dan J. Marlowe (1914-1986), a creator of callous criminal characters, was one of the finest paperback suspense novelists of the 1960s and 1970s. In fact, horror mega-author Stephen King dedicated a book to him. Marlowe’s life was like his fiction: full of dark drama and strange twists. In the early 1960s, Marlowe befriended bank robber, Al Nussbaum, who partnered with murderous sociopath Bobby “One-Eye” Wilcoxson. Gunshots in Another Room: The Forgotten Life of Dan J. Marlowe interweaves the stories of Nussbaum, who became a mystery-story writer, Wilcoxson, who committed a savage murder after being released from prison, and Marlowe, who, stricken with amnesia, was haunted by the ghosts of his past, some of whom roamed the seamy world of kinky sex. Book contains 16 photos.