Tiffany Thayer (1902–1959) was a prolific author and a founding member of the Fortean Society. Many of his novels were scandalous in their day and often critically loathed, but became massive bestsellers and several were made into movies. One novel inspired the 1970s TV series The Name of the Game.
This break-out crime novel, originally published in 1930 under pseudonym "John Doe," was actually written by Tiffany Thayer, who hit the national bestseller lists that same year with his acclaimed novel Thirteen Men, which was quickly followed with one controversial book after another. Now Eyewitness! is finally back in print for the first time in 95 years and hasn't lost its explosive punch.
"An American Girl" was banned in 1933 for obscenity in some corners of the country, and was ravaged by outraged, negative reviews from many literary critics..., and yet it became a massive bestseller that, despite selling a million copies, slipped into obscurity for the next 92 years. Now it's finally back in print.
A Hollywood film crew, and a young Iowa starlet from the midwest, travel to a fictional country in the Pyrenees to make an epic movie... and get drawn into the kingdom's palace intrigues, sexual politics, and a bloody revolution, which makes for exciting production value on screen, but it could get them all killed.
An unconventional crime story that became a massive bestseller in the 1930s...launching Tiffany Thayer's controversial, and highly successful, writing a career, one that's all but forgotten today, even though he sold millions of books. Now, after nearly 100 years, the blockbuster Thirteen Men is finally back in print...and hasn't lost any of its narrative power over time. It is still, as the San Francisco Examiner declared, “One of the most realistic studies of the American melting pot that has ever been penned.”
