Leslie Waller, 1923-2007

The author Leslie Waller, a popular thriller novelist that co-wrote It Rhymes With Lust with friend Arnold Drake, died in Rochester, New York, last Thursday. This Naples Daily News obituary gives Waller credit for screenplays of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Dog Day Afternoon, although I'm certain they mean novelizations of those films. The former crime writer at the Chicago Sun-Times partnered with the late Drake to pen the graphic novel It Rhymes With Lust, among the first to utilize that format and a book to be republished any second now by Dark Horse Comics. Waller was 83 years old.
 
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