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Author:	E. M. Parsons as Philip Race
Title:	Self-Made Widow
Publisher:	Gold Medal
Country:	UK
Date:	1960
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Crime, Thriller
Cat#:	371
First Published:	1958
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Cover art by 'Darcy' aka Ernest Chiriaka.

Philip Race was a pseudonym used by E.M. Parsons (Elmer Merle Parsons)

Originally published by GM Books # s796 - 1958.

Elmer Merle Parsons was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1926 (Died June 24th 1970). In 1949, when he was 23 years old, he was convicted of burglary and grand theft for stealing a car from a Phoenix used car lot and leading police on a wild chase that ended in a crash. He served three years in Chino State Prison...but didn't stay free for long. In 1955, he was arrested in Pasadena, CA for passing 22 stolen checks, which he told the court he needed to "tide him over" while awaiting money for a script he claimed he'd sold and because he couldn't get a job due to his prison record. He was sentenced to five years in prison, which he served at San Quentin, where he became editor of the prison newspaper and sold his first novel, "Self Made Widow," to Fawcett for $3500 advance under the pen-name "Philip Race." He wrote & published two more novels, "Killer Take All" and "Johnny Come Deadly," under his pen name. After his release in 1960, he wrote one novel ("Dark of Summer") and several westerns under his own name and also contributed scripts for many TV series, including "Sea Hunt," "Cheyenne," "Ripcord," "Bonanza," "The Dakotas," The Virginian," and "Flipper."

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