American writer (1903-1968) who is best known for his crime fiction; his story It Had to Be Murder served as the source for Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic Rear Window. TLS, two pages, 6 x 9, Hotel Marseilles letterhead, August 3, 1946. Letter to literary agent H. N. Swanson, in part: "Yes, I would like you to try and get me the assignment with Selznick, for Tender Is The Night, you speak of. I have been anxious for you to get me such an assignment for some time, but naturally I would expect the remuneration to be sufficient to make it worthwhile…About Patrice: it is my intention to expand it into a full-length; I think it will sell better that way. About Dancing Detective: Goldstone is not handling it. He is not my agent; I now have full control under the William Irish contracts. But the prices on these short pieces are no good, not worth bothering about. As far as the proposition I said I had for you, you yourself put a bad dent in it [b]y selling Winter Kill to Michael Curtiz. He had approached me for my next book when and if it is written, but now the market may be saturated there for some time." In very good to fine condition, with light creasing and staple holes to the tops of each page.
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