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Overview: The unlikely pairing of a Catholic priest with a Jewish police detective resulted in series of tough, hard-boiled novels by American author John Alfred “Jack” Webb.
Webb wrote fifteen novels in the Fifties and Sixties under his name, the pen name of John Farr, and a Western under the name of Tex Grady (High Mesa, 1952).
Webb was born in California and lived in Playa Del Ray. Before turning to writing, Webb worked as a bird-keeper in a zoo, a production supervisor at an aircraft company, and a technical writer.
Webb’s two lead characters—Father Joseph Stanley of St. Anne’s Church in the parish of Royal Heights and Sammy (Elijah) Golden, an LA Police Department —detective-sergeant were featured in ten novels.
Father Shanley was, by Webb’s description, a handsome young man in his early 30s who smoked a pipe and was physically fit. According to Webb, he was “a fighter by instinct, a man of cloth by devotion and inspiration.” In addition to once reigning as an intercollegiate boxing champion, Father Shanley served as a Navy chaplain with the Marines in World War II where he learned judo from a marine sergeant.
Like Shanley, LAPD’s Sammy Golden is in his early thirties and won a Purple Heart in the war. Golden never went out of his way to avoid violence, and readers were led to believe that he may have enjoyed it. In fact, now and then, Golden finds it necessary to do an end-around the law.
The detective is often in the company of fellow officer Red Adams.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
2 The Naked Angel (1953) aka Such Women Are Dangerous
Hard-hitting Police Detective Sammy Golden and his two-fisted friend, parish priest Father Joseph Shanley, land in trouble right up to their collective necks, when a baffling case of murder involves them with a bizarre cast of characters, including …
… a famous strip tease queen
… a wealthy dealer in used cars and dope
… a cold-blooded killer
…and a naked angel who appears nightly on a pure white cloud
A fast and furious thriller starring two of crime fiction’s most likeable sleuths.
3 The Damned Lovely (1954)
She was lovely—blonde, blue eyes, with luscious curves in the right places …
She was damned—an eye witness to a gang killing and the murderer knew where to find her …
4 The Broken Doll (1955)
Million dollar heiress is kidnapped by an unusual pair—a blonde and aex-con—who demand ransom or they will make sure death strikes their victim!
6 The Brass Halo (1957)
Out of the night, she came. She walked into Augie’s place and she sand. Lord, how she sang. She wrapped her voice around a song and the customers loved it.
Then, suddenly she disappeared. She walked out of the club, into the night. There was nothing left behind to show she’d been there … nothing but the body of the man who lay dead on her dressing room floor.
9 The Gilded Witch (1963)
Father Joseph Shanley and Detective Sergeant Sammy Golden felt a very personal interest in this case. Gil Basta had been murdered. It was not hard to find his enemies: Gil had written Manama Town, a big, five hundred page, dirty, sordid book that had immediately become a best-seller. But the novel was not a creation of Basta’s imagination – the people and incidents depicted were based on reality, Father Shanley’s parish and parishioners.
Unfortunately, the matter did not rest with publication of the book and Basta’s murder. Carmen Montoya was found hanging from a rafter in the shed behind her house. Carmen had been prominent in Manama Town as the whore who slept with the narrator. Father Shanley heard something in the confessional that had a bearing on her death, but illness put him in bed for a few days.
Sammy, meanwhile, had flown to Phoenix to question Basta’s wife. She had an alibi for the time of his death, but Sammy was sure that there was something that she was hiding from him. As he pursued the case further he found himself personally involved, and it took some brilliant deductions from Father Shanley to discover the real facts behind the deaths.
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Sammy Golden/Father Shanley #1, 7: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1294&t=5254284&hilit=Jack+Webb
Sammy Golden/Father Shanley #5: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1294&t=4773774&hilit=Jack+Webb
Sammy Golden/Father Shanley #8: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1294&p=11311874#p11311874.
