Lionel White was an American crime novelist, several of whose dark, noirish stories were made into films. His books include The Night of the Following Day (made into a film by Hubert Cornfield

Hubert Cornfield

Hubert Cornfield was a film director in Hollywood. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey and died in Los Angeles, California. Billy Wilder, William Wyler and Joseph L. Mankiewicz all signed his Directors Guild of America application.-Films he has completed:*The Night of the Following Day * Les Grandes...

 starring Marlon Brando), The Money Trap (made into a movie by Burt Kennedy starring Glen Ford & Elke Sommer), The Big Caper (made into a film by Robert Stevens starring Rory Calhoun), Death takes the bus, Clean Break (adapted by Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

 as the basis for his 1956 film, The Killing), and Obsession (adapted by Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

 as the basis for his 1965 film, Pierrot le fou

Pierrot le fou

Pierrot le fou is a 1965 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film is based on Obsession, a novel by Lionel White. It was Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature film, released between Alphaville and Masculin, féminin...

) and by the Finnish director Seppo Huunonen for the 1974 film The Hair (Karvat) and Rafferty, adapted by 1980 Soviet Lenfilm

Lenfilm

Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners, and several private film studios,...

 production of the same title. He died in December 1985. Seven years later, Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

, in his film Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs is an American crime film marking debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist, but not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast: Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, and...

, credited White, among others, as an inspiration.

White (AKA as L.W. Blanco) had been a crime reporter and began writing suspense novels in the 1950s. He wrote more than 35 books, all translated into a number of different languages. His earlier novels were published as Gold Medal pulp hard-boiled crime fiction, but when Duttons began a line of mystery and suspense books, he also wrote for them. He was most well known as what a New York Times review described as "the master of the big caper."

Novels

• A Death at Sea (1961)
• A Grave Undertaking (1961)
• A Party to Murder (1966)
• A Rich and Dangerous Game (1974)
• A Right for Murder (1957)
• Before I Die
  Before I Die
  Before I Die is a novel written by Jenny Downham. Tessa Scott is only 16, and she has just months left to live before she finally loses her battle with cancer. However, she has made a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some which are dangerous and foolish, and others which will...
  
  
• Clean Break (1955) (Re-released as The Killing)
• Coffin for a Hood (1958)
• Death of a City (1970)
• Death Takes the Bus (1957)
• Flight into Terror
  Flight Into Terror
  "Flight Into Terror" is the 10th episode of the second series of Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted and the 16th episode overall.-Synopsis:The Craggy Island priests are on a plane with a large group of other such priests....
  
  (1955)
• Hijack (1969)
• Hostage for a Hood (1957)
• Invitation to Violence (1958)
• Jailbreak (1976)
• Lament for a Virgin (1960)
• Love Trap
• Marilyn K. (1960)
• The Night of the Rape (1967)

• Obsession (1962)
• Operation - Murder (1956)
• Rafferty (1959)
• Run, Killer, Run! (1959)
• Seven Hungry Men!
• Steal Big (1960)
• The Big Caper
  The Big Caper
  The Big Caper is a 1957 film directed by Robert Stevens. It stars Rory Calhoun and Mary Costa.-Cast:*Rory Calhoun as Frank Harper*Mary Costa as Kay*James Gregory as Flood*Robert H. Harris as Zimmer*Roxanne Arlen as Doll...
  
  (1955)
• The Crimshaw Memorandum (1967)
• The House Next Door (1956)
• The House on K Street (1965)
• The Merriweather File (1959)
• The Mexico Run (1974)
• The Mind Poisoners (1966). White started this Nick Carter book under a pseudonym for Signet's Killmasters Spy series. Valerie Moolman took over and finished it.

Read more: http://suspenseandmystery.blogspot.com/2010/11/mind-poisoners-by-lionel-white-and.html#ixzz1UOxQC6aZ

• The Money Trap
  The Money Trap
  The Money Trap is a 1965 drama film starring Glenn Ford , Elke Sommer and Rita Hayworth and directed by Burt Kennedy.-Plot:Joe Baron is a cop with financial troubles because of his wife Lisa's constant spending. One day, a burglar is reported shot at the home of a doctor...
  
  (1963)
• The Ransomed Madonna (1964)
• The Snatchers (1953) (Filmed as The Night of the Following Day
  The Night of the Following Day
  The Night of the Following Day is a 1968 film starring Marlon Brando, Pamela Franklin, Richard Boone and Rita Moreno. Filmed in France, around Le Touquet it tells a simple story: a kidnapped heiress is held hostage in a remote beachhouse on the coast of France.The film starts with Dupont's...
  
  )
• The Time of Terror (1960)
• The Walled Yard (1978)
• To Find a Killer (also released as Before I Die
  Before I Die
  Before I Die is a novel written by Jenny Downham. Tessa Scott is only 16, and she has just months left to live before she finally loses her battle with cancer. However, she has made a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some which are dangerous and foolish, and others which will...
  
  ) (1954)
• Too Young to Die (1958)

External links

• Short bio at Good Reads | http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/205905.Lionel_White.
• Good list of writings, organized by dates, at | http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/lionel-white/.
• Partial filmography at Fandango | http://www.fandango.com/lionelwhite/filmography/p311788.