can be seen, for example, in Jean-Luc Godard's film Made in U.S.A., in which one character is reading this novel in its French translation, Adieu la vie, adieu l'amour. In Hollywood, McCoy wrote westerns, crime melodramas, and other films for various studios. McCoy worked with such movie directors as Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh, and Nicholas Ray. He was also an uncredited script assistant for King Kong (1933). The film Bad for Each Other (1953), for which McCoy received co-screenwriting credit (with Irving Wallace), was based on his novel Scalpel (1952) which was uncredited. McCoy was also recognized for the story, in the closing credits, of the Samantha Crawford character debut in the Maverick television series titled "According to Hoyle" starring James Garner, Diane Brewster and Leo Gordon. Personal life He was married to Helen Vinmont McCoy, with whom he had two sons, Horace Stanley McCoy II and Peter McCoy; and a daughter, Amanda McCoy. He died in Beverly Hills, California of a heart attack. Works Novels They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) No Pockets in a Shroud (1937; revised 1948) I Should Have Stayed Home (1938) Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948) Scalpel (1952) Corruption City (unfinished; completed by a ghostwriter and published posthumously in 1959) Short stories All-Star Detective Stories": "Two Smart Guys" (November 1931) Black Mask: "The Devil Man" (December 1927) "Dirty Work" (September 1929) "Hell's Stepsons" (October 1929) "Renegades of the Rio" (December 1929) "The Little Black Book" (January 1930) "Frost Rides Alone" (March 1930) "Somewhere in Mexico" (July 1930) "The Gun-Runners" (August 1930) "The Mailed Fist" (December 1930) "Headfirst into Hell" (May 1931) "The Mopper Up" (November 1931) "The Trail to the Tropics" (March 1932) "The Golden Rule" (June 1932) "Murder in Error" (August 1932) "Wings Over Texas" (October 1932) "Flight at Sunrise" (May 1934) "Somebody Must Die" (October 1934 Detective-Dragnet Magazine: "Killer's Killer" (December 1930) "Death Alley" (March 1931) "Juggernaut of Justice" (August 1931) Detective Action Stories: "Night Club" (February 1931) Man Stories: "A Matter of Honor" (July 1931) Nickel Detective: "Trapped By Silver" (August 1933) Popular Fiction: "Bombs for the General" (February 1932) References External links 1897 births 1955 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers American crime fiction writers American male novelists American male short story writers American male screenwriters United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I Novelists from Tennessee People from Cheatham County, Tennessee Pulp fiction writers Recipients of the