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The Mod Squad

by Richard Deming

NICE COPY OF THIS 1969 PUBLICATION. IT IS THE AUTHORIZED EDITION PUBLISHED BY WHITMAN. A FEW DINGS AND MINOR DISCOLORATION ON SPINE AND COVERS. NO MARKING OR WRITING WITHIN BOOK. MILD TANNING OF PAGES.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Richard Deming (1915-1983) was a solid and reliable pro whose crime-writing career extended from late 1940s pulps to early 1980s digests. He also wrote several volumes of popular non-fiction late in his life.

He is most likely to be remembered as one of the most prolific contributors to Manhunt and the early days of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and as a paperback original writer, sometimes of novels based on TV shows (Dragnet, The Mod Squad, and under the pseudonym Max Franklin, Starsky and Hutch). He was also a frequent ghost for the Ellery Queen team on paperback originals and for Brett Halliday on lead novelettes for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.

Reviews

[John Peel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starting with the three members of the Squad being recruited (which Deming also does in his adult novels based on the show), we follow Julie, Pete and Linc on an early case. Teenagers are being organized to steal car parts, and they have to find out who the adult is that is arranging the thefts. A solid, decent crime story that anyone can enjoy.