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Died. Clarence Budington Kelland, 82, tireless practitioner of the first basic plot (good guy wins), who in 61 years authored 10 million words chronicling the adventures of such homespuns as Scattergood Baines, Mark Tidd and Mr. Deeds, dabbled in Republican politics on the side; after a brief illness; in Scottsdale, Ariz...
CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND, 73, Arizona Republican National Committeeman, irreconcilable old guardsman and prolific, bestselling author (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), in a letter published in the Arizona Republic...
Cloudless Skies. Kelland's stories fall into two general classes: 1) action-filled mystery dramas with big-city atmosphere, 2) more leisurely period pieces, as often as not in Western settings. But the Kelland hero, whether he wears chaps, galluses, or a Brooks Brothers suit, is always a man of gumption and industry. His heroine, similarly, is spunky and assertive, but she always turns out to be loving and feminine once the hero has tamed...
...Dangerous Angel, Kelland's No. 39, the tamee is one Anneke Villard, a girl with a shrewd business sense who hits San Francisco in the closing years of the Gold Rush era, and swiftly parlays a $20,000 inheritance into something nearing a cool million. Unwittingly, she also falls in love with a handsome Telegraph Hill aristocrat named Juan Parnell, although she fights against it. They make up their lovers' quarrel just in time to outwit two murderous swindlers who have suckered San Francisco financial circles in a colossal confidence game...
...story, like true Kelland young folk, Anneke (who has lost her interest in money) and Juan (who has forgiven her for it) decide to start life anew together-"a boy and girl, simple, delighting each other, happy under cloudless skies." To keep the clouds away indefinitely they have-from Anneke's mining operations-a handsome financial profit. And so, after magazine rights, bookstore orders and reprint contracts, does durable Clarence Budington Kelland...