Gil Brewer

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Gil Brewer
BornGilbert John Brewer
November 20, 1922
Canandaigua, New York, United States
DiedJanuary 9, 1983(1983-01-09) (aged 60)
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
Period1951–1983
GenreCrime fiction

Gilbert John "Gil" Brewer (November 20, 1922 – January 9, 1983) was an American writer of crime novels and short stories. Born on November 20, 1922, in Canandaigua, New York, he was the son of Gilbert Thomas Brewer and Ruth Wilhelmina Olschewske.[1] Brewer's father was a writer who also published under the name Gil Brewer, specializing in air adventure stories.[2] The older Brewer is most often remembered for having written "Gorilla of the Gas Bags," the cover story for the rare June 1929 issue of Zeppelin Stories.[3]

After leaving the army at the end of World War II, Brewer joined his family, who had settled in St. Petersburg, Florida.[4] 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, and afterwards specialized in fast-paced crime novels with a dose of soft-core sexuality. At one point, he had five books on the stands simultaneously. His best-selling book was 13 French Street (1951), which sold over a million copies.[4]

Unwilling to promote himself, his career took a turn for the worse after a mental breakdown, and a long decline into alcoholism.[4] Brewer died on January 9, 1983.[4]

Works

This list does not include most of the many stories where Brewer was published under pseudonyms such as Elaine Evans, Connie Everett, Eric Fitzgerald, Morgana Hill, Jack Holland, Dee Laye, Marc Mixer, Bailey Morgan, Luke Morgann [sic], Frank Sebastian, Alex Sexton, Anita Sultry, Viola Vixen, and more.[5][6][7][8]

Novels

Published as by Gil Brewer. Reprints.

title publisher year comment
Gun the Dame Down - 1951
Gun the Dame Down Stark House 2015 reprint
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
The Girl from Hateville Zenith 1958
Wild to Possess Monarch 1959
Sugar Avon 1959
Nude on Thin Ice Avon 1960
Angel 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 1963
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 TV tie-in
It Takes a Thief #2: Mediterranean Caper Ace 1969 TV tie-in
It Takes a Thief #3: Appointment in Cairo Ace 1970 TV tie-in
A Devil for O'Shaughnessy - 1973
A Devil for O'Shaughnessy Stark House 2008 reprint
Angry Arnold - 1976
Angry Arnold Stark House 2015 reprint
The Erotics Stark House 2015

Short story collections

  • Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories (University Press of Florida – October 7, 2012)
  • Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories: Expanded Edition (Stark House – March 2019)
  • Death Is a Private Eye: Unpublished Stories of Gil Brewer (Stark House – August 2019)
  • Die Once–Die Twice: More Unpublished Stories of Gil Brewer (Stark House – January 2020)
  • Death Comes Last: The Rest of the 1950s (Stark House – November 2021)

References

  1. ^ Rachels, David (2019). Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories: Expanded Edition. Eureka, CA: Stark House Press. p. 2. ISBN 9781944520762.
  2. ^ Rachels, David (2021). Death Comes Last: The Rest of the 1950s. Eureka, CA: Stark House Press. p. 7. ISBN 9781951473617.
  3. ^ "Lot #91661". Heritage Auctions. February 12, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d David Rachels (2018). Gil Brewer's Sexual Obsession[usurped], PunkNoirMagazine.com, accessed October 20, 2021
  5. ^ "Gil Brewer".
  6. ^ "GIL BREWER, by Bill Pronzini and Lynn Munroe".
  7. ^ "RARA-AVIS Archives: RARA-AVIS: Gil Brewer – new pseudonyms".
  8. ^ "Gil Brewer papers, – Archives West".