John Mersereau

This article is about the novelist. For the intelligence operative active during the American Revolution, see Mersereau Ring.

John Mersereau (1898–1989) was an American novelist.^[1] Several of his stories were made into films. His novels include The Corpse Comes Ashore, Murder Loves Company, and Whispering Canyon. Whispering Canyon was adapted into the 1926 film Whispering Canyon.^[2] He also wrote the novel that the movie The Checkered Flag was based on.^[3]

Kirkus Reviews described Murder Loves Company as a murder mystery set at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco and rated the work an "averagely good yarn".^[4]

John Mersereau Jr. (1925 - 2009) wrote Overdue at Immokalee: A Tale of Preemptive Assassination and several books on Russian literature, poetry, and language.^[5][6]

Bibliography

• The Corpse Comes Ashore
• Garber of Thunder Gorge by John Mersereau and Whitman Chambers Small, Maynard, 1924
• The Checkered Flag, 1925^[3]
• The Whispering Canyon by John Mersereau, Grosset & Dunlap, 1926
• Gill O' the Rangers: A Western Story by John Mersereau, Chelsea House Publishers, 1930
• Murder Loves Company

References

1. "» Reviewed by William F. Deeck: JOHN MERSEREAU – Murder Loves Company".
2. Goble, Alan (September 8, 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943.
3. Institute, American Film (January 31, 1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209695.
4. "MURDER LOVES COMPANY by John Mersereau | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
5. "Mersereau, John Jr 1925-2009 [WorldCat Identities]".
6. Incorporated, Grolier (17 February 2019). The encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Incorporated. ISBN 9780717201358.