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Name
  
Georges Surdez

Role
  
Writer


Died
  
1949

Movies
  
Desert Legion

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Georges Arthur Surdez (1900–1949) was a writer of adventure stories. He was born in Bienne, Switzerland, of French descent. He first visited America at the age of thirteen, and went to school in New York. He invented the term "Russian Roulette" in a story of the same name published in Collier's magazine.

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He was a regular contributor to Adventure, with over 100 stories appearing.

His short story A Game in the Bush was filmed as South Sea Love in 1927. His novel "The Demon Caravan" was filmed as Desert Legion starring Alan Ladd.

He married an older schoolteacher, Edith McKenna, in 1922. They divorced after she left him for another man in 1943.

Novels

  • Swords of the Soudan, 1923.
  • The Demon Caravan, 1927
  • They March from Yesterday (1 March 1930, published by Adventure magazine).
  • Homeland, 1946 (autobiographical novel).

    • Short stories

  • Dinner for Monsieur Martin.
  • The Yellow Streak
  • Sons Of The Sword, 1928, published in Adventure.
  • A Game In The Bush
  • Hell's Half-Way House
  • Russian roulette, 1937, published in Collier's.
  • The Haunted Wall, 1941

    • References

    Georges Surdez Wikipedia
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