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Occupation. Novelist, writer. Genre. Crime. Notable works. The Detective. Nothing Lasts Forever. Roderick Mayne Thorp Jr. (September 1, 1936 – April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedural/ crime novels. His novel The Detective was adapted into a film of the same name in 1968.
Publication Order of Anthologies. Roderick Thorp is a thriller and mystery fiction author that was born in the Bronx on September 1936. He attended City College of New York which is where he began writing. It was at this time that he would become the winner of the Theodore Goodman Short Story Award.
Roderick Thorp (1936-1999) was a novelist, short-story writer, teacher and private detective. He wrote the books that inspired the Die Hard movies, as well as other novels and short stories.
- January 1, 1
- The Bronx, New York, USA
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- Oxnard, California, USA
Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 action thriller novel by American author Roderick Thorp, a sequel to his 1966 novel The Detective. The novel is mostly known through its 1988 film adaptation Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis. In 2012, the book was brought back into print and released as an ebook for the 24th anniversary of the film.
- Roderick Thorp
- 1979
May 4, 1999 · Roderick Thorp, a former private investigator whose best-selling crime novels became successful films, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Oxnard, Calif. He was 62. He appeared to have...
May 2, 1999 · May 2, 1999 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Roderick Thorp, a best-selling author of detective novels probably best known for the books “Die Hard” and “The Detective,” has died. Thorp died...
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Roderick Thorp. Writer: Die Hard. Novelist, short-story writer, teacher -- and private detective. He wrote two novels that would be turned into theatrical films, "The Detective" (1966), which became The Detective (1968); and "Nothing Lasts Forever" (1979), which became Die Hard (1988).
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