Whittington novels like The Devil Wears Wings, Fires That Destroy, A Moment to Prey and A Ticket to Hell are tense affairs, with knuckle-crunching dialogue. In churning out his high-octane books, he deployed over twenty noms-des-plumes: Whit Harrison (for suspense and westerns), Clay Stuart (southern novels), Steve Philips (police procedurals), Hondo Wells (westerns), Tabor Evans (westerns), Harriet Kathryn Myers (nurse romances), Hallam Whitney (southern novels), Ashley Carter (southern historical- Falconhurst series), Harry White (westerns), as well as Howard Winslow, Henry Whittier, Curt Colman, John Dexter, Kel Holland, Blaine Stevens and Suzanne Stephens. From the early 1950s to the mid-1980s he might have been the hardest working writers in Noirville, racking-up some 180 novels. Whittington- not the Harry Whittington wounded by former VP Cheney in that famous quail-hunting incident, though that Whittington and the incident could have come straight from one of writer-Whittington’s novels- was the last of his kind.
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