NEXT DOOR TO DEATH Len Nielsen stumbled tipsily into the wrong house among the look-alike homes of Fairlawn Acres one night, fell into bed in the dark - and woke up beside a stranger's corpse! Police jeered when he couldn't find the house by daylight. But when a babysitter was brutally slain outside Len's own door, he was jailed and only his wife was left to search the panic-stricken suburb for the real murderer in this harrowing thriller.
Author
Lionel White was a crime reporter who wrote around 38 suspenseful thrillers beginning with The Snatchers in 1953 and ending with The Walled Yard in 1978. Most of his books were translated into a number of different languages and 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 for what a New York Times review described as "the master of the big caper." A number of his books were made into movies and Stanley Kubrick liked his book 'Clean Break' (1955) so much that he licensed the rights for his film "The Killing" in 1956. In Quentin Tarantino's film "Reservoir Dogs", Lionel White is listed as an inspiration for the film in the credits. Gerry Wolstenholme May 2011
