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Roderick Mayne Thorp was born on September 1, 1936, in New York City. He was the son of Roderick Mayne and Irene Elizabeth (Rehill) Thorp.
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, United States
Thorp received a Bachelor of Arts at the City College of New York in 1957.
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, United States
Thorp received a Bachelor of Arts at the City College of New York in 1957.
(Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full o...)
Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full of medals, but his greatest honor came after he traded his pilot’s wings for a detective’s shield. Catching the Leikman killer made Joe a local hero, but the shine quickly wore off, and it wasn’t long before he left the police force to start his own private agency.
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1966
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1973
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1974
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1977
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A dozen heavily armed terrorists have taken hostages, issued demands, and promised bloodshed all according to plan. But they haven't counted on a death-defying, one-man cavalry with no shoes, no backup, and no intention of going down easily. As hot-headed cops swarm outside, and cold-blooded killers wield machine guns and rocket launchers inside, the stage is set for the ultimate showdown between anti-hero and uber-villains. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fight to the death. Ho ho ho!"
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1979
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After Queen Victoria, Jenny Lind is the most famous woman in Europe. A Swedish soprano with a voice like an angel’s and a temperament to match, she is in Vienna when she meets the shortest man she has ever seen. General Tom Thumb is a three-foot-tall sensation whom P. T. Barnum has made one of the wealthiest men in the world. Thumb arrives with a message from Barnum offering Lind more money than she has ever dreamed of, to do something she has never done before: perform in America.
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1981
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After five people are murdered in Laurel Canyon, and his partner, Dan, is also killed, Mike Gallagher, acting head of homicide, Hollywood Division, discovers that someone very close to him may be involved
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1986
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Quitting drinking may have saved Frank Devlin’s life, but it killed his career. When the NYPD detective got sober, he also stopped taking bribes, and his rise through the ranks slowed to a crawl. After thirteen years of working the drug-plagued Lower East Side, he has a new relationship and a modicum of inner peace—both of which are threatened when Devlin’s past comes back to destroy him.
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1988
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It is America's most notorious, unsolved, serial murder case: the Green River Killer slaughtered at least fifty women in the Seattle-Portland area during the 1980s and was never brought to justice. Now, in this gripping novel, the bestselling author of The Detective and Diehard presents his own horrifying portrayal of the Green River killings. River unmasks the Green River Killer and reveals why he was never caught - a story no true crime account has ever been able to tell.
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1995
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When a young coast guard lieutenant commander, Sam Merrill, finds a “ghost” yacht full of one billion dollars’ worth of gold, money, and contraband, he becomes a national sensation and the poster boy for America’s war on drugs. As a reward, the government sends Sam and his wife, Amy, on an all-expenses-paid vacation to the Bahamas. Sam’s newfound fame becomes a nightmare when Amy is kidnapped not long after they arrive in the tropical paradise.
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Roderick Mayne Thorp was born on September 1, 1936, in New York City. He was the son of Roderick Mayne and Irene Elizabeth (Rehill) Thorp.
Thorp received a Bachelor of Arts at the City College of New York in 1957.
As a young college graduate, Thorp worked at a detective agency owned by his father. He would later teach literature and lecture on creative writing at schools and universities in New Jersey and California, and also wrote articles for newspapers and magazines.
His film "Die Hard" was relatively faithful to "Nothing Lasts Forever", so it was not made as a sequel to the film version of "The Detective". Two other Thorp novels, "Rainbow Drive" and "Devlin", were adapted into TV movies.
Thorp died of a heart attack in Oxnard, California.
Thorp is known as the author of the two of his best-known novels which were adapted into popular films: his 1966 novel "The Detective" was made into a 1968 film of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra as Detective Joe Leland, and his 1979 sequel to "The Detective", "Nothing Lasts Forever", was filmed in 1988 as "Die Hard", starring Bruce Willis.
(When a young coast guard lieutenant commander, Sam Merril...)
(After five people are murdered in Laurel Canyon, and his ...)
1986(It is America's most notorious, unsolved, serial murder c...)
1995(Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full o...)
1966(A dozen heavily armed terrorists have taken hostages, iss...)
1979(Quitting drinking may have saved Frank Devlin’s life, but...)
1988(After Queen Victoria, Jenny Lind is the most famous woman...)
1981Roderick was a member of Writers Guild of America.
On April 22, 1957, Thorp married Noel Margaret Kennel. The marriage produced two children, Roderick M. III and Stephen Philip. The couple divorced in 1981. On March 17, 1988, Thorp married Claudia Lucille Yancey.
