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from Ed Gorman's Desk: Richard Neely

from ED GORMAN’S Desk Richard Neely Nov. 10, 2005   The first time I ever spoke to Richard Neely, suspense novelist extraordinaire, he kept trying to place my name. “It’s so damned familiar—wait a minute, you’re the guy who called me the de Sade of crime fiction.”     Loose lips sink ships. So can old reviews. I figured that our business would sink if he ever remembered that long ago review. But he laughed. “I think I was just ahead of my time.”      Actually, I’d meant that remark as a compliment because I was pointing out that Neely, despite the Irish name, took a very French approach to the psychological machinations of sex in his books. Two of his books became French movies. Somebody apparently agreed with me.      Neely, a very sleek and successful advertising man, is gone now and so, undeservedly, are his books. The Walter Syndrome , his bestselling suspense novel, was almost ruined for me when I guessed the ending on page two, something I never do. But I

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