From the New York Times:
Donald
Bain, the pseudonymous author of the “Murder, She Wrote” novels,
Margaret Truman’s “Capital Crimes” mysteries and “Coffee, Tea or Me?,”
the supposed memoir of two saucy airline stewardesses, died on Saturday
in White Plains. He was 82.
Over
five decades as a ghostwriter he published novels, biographies,
westerns and historical romances, mostly under fictitious names or
credited to more marketable bylines; vanity memoirs attributed to
corporate executives; and even long articles disguised as excerpts from
nonexistent books.
His
more than 125 books included 46 “Murder, She Wrote” mysteries, inspired
by the television series of the same name starring Angela Lansbury.
Many were written in collaboration with his second wife, Renee Paley-Bain.
He
began secretly collaborating with Margaret Truman, the daughter of
former President Harry S. Truman, in the early 1980s; the first book
they wrote together was “Murder on Capitol Hill” (1981). Ms. Truman —
she was otherwise known as Margaret Truman Daniel — died in 2008,
but the series continued with two dozen books under her name followed
by six, in collaboration with Bob Gleason, under Mr. Bain’s.
“With
the ‘Margaret Truman Capital Crimes’ series,” Mr. Bain explained, “I
operate from the standpoint that there is absolutely nothing that I can
make up that is far-fetched when it comes to Washington, D.C., and the
political climate there.”
2 comments:
Thank you for this post. My dad was also the best father and grandfather to his four grandsons. I am heartbroken. Rest in peace, daddy xoxo
Oh, Laurie, I am so very sorry for your loss.
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