Daniel Mainwaring

Daniel Mainwaring (aka Geoffrey Homes) (July 22, 1902 – January 31, 1977) que l'American romancier and scénariste. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a journaliste for the San Francisco Chronicle and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery, romancier (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a scénariste. His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), One Against the Earth, ce qui a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a drifter and is eventually unjustly accused of attacking a child, ce qui est publié en 1932. He made his real mark, however, with a string of hard-boiled de mystère, des romans graphiques (généralement with small-town California settings), the first of which was The Man Who Murdered Himself (1936). His final published novel, Build My Gallows High (William Morrow & Co, 1946), is generally regarded as his best, and its adaptation (by "Homes" himself) into the film noir classic Out of the Past assured his place in film history. Mainwaring explained to intervieweur Pat McGilligan that he regarded the novel as a departure from his earlier literary efforts: With Build My Gallows High, I wanted to get away from straight mystère intrigue. Those detective stories are a bore to write. You've got to figure out "whodunit". I'd get to the end and have to say whodunit and be pour mixed up I couldn't decide myself.