Roscoe, Theodore
Entry updated 7 July 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1906-1992) US biographer, naval historian and author whose I'll Grind Their Bones (1936) is a locked-room mystery set in a Near Future Europe about to go to war. Of fairly moderate genre interest are the Thibaut Corday stories, featuring the eponymous Pulp magazines hero in exotic adventures; they are assembled in The Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh [and] The Bearded Slayer (coll circa 1939), Monkey See, Monkey Do [and] Terror Stalks the Mangroves (anth circa 1939), the second story being by Eustace L Adams, and The Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh (coll 1981), the latter title assembling earlier material. Novels of interest which have not yet appeared in book form include "War Declared" (27 April-8 June 1935 Argosy), "Remember Tomorrow" (16 September-21 October 1939 Argosy). [JC]
Theodore Roscoe
born Rochester, New York: 20 February 1906
died Florida: 29 May 1992
works
series
Thibaut Corday
- The Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh [and] The Bearded Slayer (London: Harry Green, circa 1939) [coll: Thibaut Corday: pb/]
- Monkey See, Monkey Do [and] Terror Stalks the Mangroves (London: Harry Green, circa 1939) [anth: the second story being by Eustace L Adams: Thibaut Corday: pb/]
- The Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh (West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M Grant, 1981) [coll: Thibaut Corday: hb/Stephen Gervais]
- The Complete Adventures of Thibaut Corday and the Foreign Legion: Volume 1 – Better than Bullets (Boston, Massachusetts: Altus Press, 2012) [coll: stories originally printed in Argosy: Thibaut Corday: pb/]
- The Complete Adventures of Thibaut Corday and the Foreign Legion: Volume 2 – Toughest in the Legion (Boston, Massachusetts: Altus Press, 2012) [coll: stories originally printed in Argosy: Thibaut Corday: pb/]
- The Complete Adventures of Thibaut Corday and the Foreign Legion: Volume 3 – The Kid and the Cutthroats (Boston, Massachusetts: Altus Press, 2012) [coll: stories originally printed in Argosy: Thibaut Corday: pb/]
- The Complete Adventures of Thibaut Corday and the Foreign Legion: Volume 4 – The Heads of Sergeant Baptiste (Boston, Massachusetts: Altus Press, 2012) [coll: stories originally printed in Argosy: Thibaut Corday: pb/]
individual titles
- I'll Grind Their Bones (New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1936) [hb/]
- Z Is for Zombie (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1989) [first appeared 6 February-13 March 1937 Argosy: pb/]
- A Grave Must Be Deep (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1989) [first appeared 1 December 1934-5 January 1935 Argosy: pb/]
about the author
- Audrey Parente. Pulpmaster: The Theodore Roscoe Story (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1992) [nonfiction: introduction by Richard A Lupoff: pb/]
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