The Gordons are crime fiction

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 author

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s Gordon Gordon (born in Anderson, Indiana

Anderson, Indiana

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 12 March 1906 died 14 March 2002) and his wife Mildred Gordon (writer) (nee Nixon born 24 June 1912 in Kansas

Kansas

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 died 3 February 1979 in Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

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). Both attended the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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 where they met and later married in 1932. They have written many crime fiction

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 novels, with some being been filmed. After they learned that the screenwriter of Make Haste to Live received $40,000 whilst they the authors only received $5000, the Gordons insisted on writing the screenplays for their books being filmed.

Mr. Gordon was an editor of the Tucson Citizen

Tucson Citizen

The Tucson Citizen was a daily newspaper in Tucson, Arizona. It was founded by Richard C. McCormick with John Wasson as publisher and editor on October 15, 1870 as the Arizona Citizen....

newspaper, was a publicist with 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

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 from 1935-1942 then served as an FBI counter-intelligence

Counter-intelligence

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 agent during World War II

World War II

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 for three years. Mildred Gordon was a teacher, an editor of Arizona Highways magazine, worked for United Press and wrote The Little Man Who Wasn't There (1946).

Mr. Gordon remarried Mary Dorr (1918-2004) on 16 March 1980 and they wrote Race for the Golden Tide (1983), The Hong Kong Affair (1998) and It Could Happen (2000) continuing the exploits of their fictional FBI agent John Ripley. Gordon and Dorr created the Excellence in Media Angel Awards.

Major works

• Make Haste to Live (1950) (filmed in 1954)
• FBI Story (1950) (John Ripley)
• Campaign Train (1952)
• Case File: FBI (1953) (John Ripley) (also wrote the screenplay when filmed as Down Three Dark Streets
  Down Three Dark Streets
  Down Three Dark Streets is a 1954 documentary-style film noir, starring Broderick Crawford and directed by Arnold Laven. The screenplay was written by Gordon and Mildred Gordon, based on their novel Case File FBI.-Plot:...
  
  in 1954)
• The Case of the Talking Bug/Playback (title in UK) (1955)
• The Big Frame (1957)
• Captive (1957) (John Ripley)
• Tiger on My Back (1960)
• Operation Terror (1961) (John Ripley) (also wrote the screenplay when filmed as Experiment in Terror
  Experiment in Terror
  Experiment in Terror is a 1962 thriller film. It was directed by Blake Edwards and written by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon based on their 1961 novel Operation Terror. The film stars Glenn Ford and Lee Remick.-Plot:...
  
  (1962)
• Menace (1962)
• Undercover Cat
  Undercover Cat
  Undercover Cat is a novel by Gordon and Mildred Gordon, about a cat who assists the FBI in tracking down a pair of bank robbers. It was published in 1963.It has been adapted to film twice, as That Darn Cat! and That Darn Cat ....
  
  (1963) (also wrote the screenplay when filmed as That Darn Cat
  That Darn Cat
  That Darn Cat is a 1997 film starring Christina Ricci and Doug E. Doug. It is a remake of the 1965 film of the same name, which in turn was based on the book Undercover Cat by Gordon and Mildred Gordon.-Plot:...
  
  (1965))
• Power Play (1965)
• Undercover Cat Prowls Again (1966)
• Night Before the Wedding (1969)
• The Tumult and the Joy (1971)
• The Informant (1973)
• Catnapped! (1974)
• The Ordeal: A Novel of Suspense About a Plane Crash and a Search for a Million Dollars (1976)
• Night After the Wedding (1979)