Gil Brewer

Gil Brewer
Born Gilbert Brewer
November 20, 1922
Canandaigua, New York, United States
Died January 9, 1983(1983-01-09) (aged 60)
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Occupation Author
Language English
Genre Crime

Gilbert "Gil" Brewer was an American novel and short story author.[1] He was born November 20, 1922 in Canandaigua, New York.

After leaving the army at the end of World War II, Brewer joined his family who had settled in St. Petersburg, Florida. There he met Verlaine in 1947 and married her soon after. Brewer started by writing serious novels, but soon turned to pulp paperbacks after a sale to Gold Medal Books in 1950. At one point, he had five books on the stands. Unwilling to promote himself, his career took a turn for the worse after a mental breakdown, and a long decline into alcoholism. Brewer died on January 9, 1983.

Works

Novels

  • Satan Is a Woman (Gold Medal - 1951)
  • So Rich, So Dead (Gold Medal - 1951)
  • 13 French Street (Gold Medal - 1951)
  • Flight to Darkness (Gold Medal - 1952)
  • Hell's Our Destination (Gold Medal - 1953)
  • A Killer Is Loose (Gold Medal - 1954)
  • Some Must Die (Gold Medal - 1954)
  • 77 Rue Paradis (Gold Medal - 1954)
  • The Squeeze (Ace Double - 1955)
  • And the Girl Screamed (Crest - 1956)
  • The Angry Dream (Mystery House - 1957)
  • The Brat (Gold Medal - 1957)
  • Little Tramp (Crest - 1957)
  • The Bitch (Avon - 1958)
  • The Red Scarf (Mystery House - 1958)
  • Wild (Crest - 1958)
  • The Vengeful Virgin (Crest - 1958)
  • Wild to Possess (Monarch - 1959)
  • Angel (Avon - 1959)
  • Sugar (Avon - 1959)
  • The Girl from Hateville (Zenith - 1959)
  • Nude on Thin Ice (Avon - 1960)
  • Backwoods Teaser (Gold Medal - 1960)
  • The Three-Way Split (Gold Medal - 1960)
  • Play it Hard (Monarch - 1960)
  • Appointment in Hell (Monarch - 1961)
  • A Taste for Sin (Berkley - 1961)
  • Memory of Passion (Lancer - 1962)
  • The Hungry One (Gold Medal - 1966)
  • The Tease (Banner - 1967)
  • Sin for Me (Banner - 1967)
  • It Takes a Thief #1 The Devil in Davos (Ace - 1969)
  • It Takes a Thief #2 Mediterranean Caper (Ace - 1969)
  • It Takes a Thief #3 Appointment in Cairo (Ace - 1970)

Short Story Collections

  • Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories (University Press of Florida - October 7, 2012)

References

  1. ↑ Morgan, Chris (2013-08-04). "The Brutalist: A Gil Brewer Retrospective". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2015-11-04.


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