num_pages: 128
description: Jonathan Latimer (1906-1983) wrote nine detective novels. He also wrote or co-wrote 20 film scripts, including such noir classics as the second version of Dasheill Hammett's The Glass Key, Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, and Cornell Woolrich's The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Moving to television writing, he scripted 45 original stories and adapted 50 Eric Stanley Gardner novels for the Perry Mason series.
language: English
title: Stewards of the House: The Detective Fiction of Jonathan Latimer
titlecomplete: Stewards of the House: The Detective Fiction of Jonathan Latimer
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Popular Press 1