Intrigued by the name Philip Rock, which I've not seen elsewhere, I thought I'd dig around and see what I could find out about the author of the first Dirty Harry novelisation.
It seems his full name was Phillip (sic) George Rock, born in Los Angeles on 30 July 1927, the son of Joe Rock (1893-1984) and his wife Louise Granville (1895-1968). Joe Rock, 5' 3" with protruding ears, was a comic actor
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