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Ball, John
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- Creator of black police officer Virgil Tibbs. In The Heat of the Night is his most famous book.
John Dudley Ball Jr. was born in 1911 in Schenectady, New York, USA, and died in 1988. He grew up in Milwaukee. After attending Carroll College he became a commercial pilot - and flew during WWII. After the war he became music editor and feature writer for the Brooklyn Eagle. He held several more positions before retiring to devote full time to his writing.
Citations:
1. 'Virgil Tibbs and the American Negro in Mystery Fiction,' by Marvin Lachman, The Armchair Detective, Volume 1, Number 3, April 1968, pg 86.
2. Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, edited b Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler, McGraw Hill, 1976.
3. '211 Dossier,' by John Ball, I, Witness: Personal Encounters With Crime By Members of the Mystery Writers of America, edited by Brian Garfield, NYT Times Books, 1978.
4. In Der Hitze von der Nacht: Review of novel In the Heat of the Night in Deutsches Entertainment Magazin.
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Ballard, W. T.
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- Pulp author, frequent contributor to Black Mask magazine.
Citations:
1. 'Appendix to the Reference Work, The Hardboiled Dicks, Sherbourne Press, by Ron Goulart.'
2. 'W.T. Ballard: An Interview,' by Stephen Mertz, The Armchair Detective, Volume 12, Winter 1979, Volume 1, pg 14-19.
3. Tod Ballard Short Stories: Commercial site.
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Bandy, Franklin
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- Had 3 mystery novels published under the name Eugene Franklin, and four suspense novels under his own name. His seventh book The Farewell Party (1980) was a mainstream novel.
Citations:
1. 'If the Book is So Good, Why Isn't It in Hardcover?,' by Franklin Bandy, The Murder Mystique, edited by Lucy Freeman. Frederick Ulgar Publishing, 1982.
This book is available from the KRIMI LIBRARY, and from www.abe.com.
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Baxt, George
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- Author of several books and film scripts. Wrote the first gay detective (Pharoah Love) mystery Queer Kind of Love and A Queer Kind of Death.
  
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Citations:
1.The George Baxt DOSSIER for complete list of titles and other information.
2. Screenwriter for Circus of Horrors, George Baxt, Director Sidney Hayers, and Star Erika Remberg interviewed by Richard Valley in Scarlet Street magazine, Issue 6, Spring 1992, pg 30.
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Belarski, Rudolph
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- Artist. Most famous for his definitive crime and suspense pulp covers.
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1. Biography of Rudolph Belarski.
2. Life in Paperback: A paragraph of info on The Applegreen Cat.
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Bell, Josephine
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- pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier Ball. She was born in 1897. The daughter of a surgeon and from a family of surgeons, she studied medicine at Newnham College, and after graduating became affiliated with University College Hospital in London. She married a physician, of four children one son is a doctor and two daughters married doctors. Bell retired from medical practice in 1954.
Following the death of her husband in 1936, she began writing mysteries. Many of her books have, of course, a medical background. Although Bell is popular in England, her books weren't published in the US until 1955. [Her books are currently out of print in the US, however several unabridged books on tape are available, including Death at Half-Term. The American title is Curtain Call For A Corpse and the critics regard it highly.
Citations:
1. Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, pg. 22, edited by Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler, McGraw-Hill, 1976.
This book is available from the KRIMI LIBRARY, and from www.abe.com.
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Bensen, D. R.
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- An editor for 32 years before turning his pen to writing.
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1. 'The Education of a Mystery Writer,' by D. R. Bensen, The Murder Mystique, edited by Lucy Freeman. Frederick Ulgar Publishing, 1982.
This book is available from the KRIMI LIBRARY, and from www.abe.com.
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Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
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- Creator of Philip Trent and author of Trent's Last Case among others.
Citations:
1. 'Edmund Clerihew Bentley,' by Charles Shibuk, The Armchair Detective, Volume 4, Numbber 1, October 1970, pg 30-31
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Boucher, Anthony
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- (1911-1968) Pseudonym of William Anthony Parker White. American critic, detective and science fiction writer, editor and anthologist. Also sometime actor and playwright.
Citations:
1. 'A Boucher Portrait: Anthony Boucher as Seen By His Friends and Colleagues,' compiled by Glen Offord, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, January 1969, Number 2, pages 69-76.
2. 'A. Boucher Bibliography, Pt. I, by J.R. Christopher with D. W. Dickensheet, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, January 1969, Number 2.
3. 'A. Boucher Bibliography, Pt. II, by J.R. Christopher with D. W. Dickensheet, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, April 1969, Number 32.
4. 'A. Boucher Bibliography, Pt. III, by J.R. Christopher with D. W. Dickensheet, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, Number 4, July 1969, pgs 263-273.
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Braun, Lilian Jackson
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- American author of 'The Cat Who...' series starring ex-newspaper reporter and now wealthy Qwilleran in his adventures in Pickaxe.
Citations:
1. 'The Lady Who...: an Interview with Lilian Jackson Braun,' by Catherine Nelson, The Armchair Detective, Volume 24, Fall 1991, Number 4, pg. 388.
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Brett, Simon
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- Creator of the actor/detective Charles Paris, and the Mrs. Pargeter series.
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Citations:
1. 'Author, Author,' by Laurence Maslon, The Armchair Detective, Volume 22, Fall 1989, Number 4, pg. 340-351.
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| Buchan,John
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- Author of The Thirty Nine Steps and creator of Richard Hannay.
Citations:
1. 'John Buchan:A Philosophy of High Adventure,' by J. Randolph Cox, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, July 1969, Number 4, pg. 207-214.
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