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Cain, James M.
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- Author of three novels transferred successfully to the screen.
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Cain, Paul
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- Pseudonym of George Sims, born in Iowa on 30 May, 1902. (He also used the pseduonym Peter Ruric for scriptwriting). Most famous for the hard-boiled novel, Fast One.
Citations:
1. 'Introducing Paul Cain and His Fast One,' by Professor E. R. Hagemann, The Armchair Detective, Volume 12, Winter 1979, Volume 1, pg 72-76.
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Carr, John C.
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- Author of The Craft of Crime: Conversations with Crime Writers, Houghton Mifflin, 1983. See entry under The Craft of Crime for table of contents.
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| Carr, John Dickson
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- Creator of Dr. Gideon Fell, Sir Henrey Merrivale, and Henri Bencolin. His Gideon Fell novels are classic 'locked room' mysteries. He also wrote many radio scripts and including the classic Cabin B-13 which spawned a radio series of its own. He narrated and hosted an American radio program, Murder By Experts.
Although his detectives are British or European, and the vast majority of his works take place in England, John Dickson Carr was born in America.
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Citations:
1. 'The Most Dangerous Man in Europe,' by Fred Dueren, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, Number 4, July 1969, pg 253-254.
2. 'Henri Bencolin,' by Fred Dueren, The Armchair Detective, Volume 8, Number 2, February 1975, pg 98.
3. 'John Dickson Carr on British radio,' by Douglas G. Greene, The Armchair Detective, Volume 12, Winter 1979, Number 1, pg 69-71.
4. 'John Dickson Carr's Solution to the Mystery of Edwin Drood,' by Lilian de la Torre, The Armchair Detective, Volume 14, Number 4, 1981, pg 291.
5. 'Adolf Hitler and John Dickson Carr's Least-Known Locked Room,' by Douglas G. Green, The Armchair Detective, Volume 14, Number 4, 1981, pg 295.
5. 'Stanislaw Lem and John Dickson Carr: Critics of the Scientific World View,' by Edmund Miller, The Armchair Detective, Volume 14, Number 4, 1981, pg 341.
6. 'Cabin B-13,' The Radio Murder Hour, by Chris Steinbrunner, The Armchair Detective, Volume 15, No. 2, 1982, pg. 167.
7. The John Dickson Carr Collector: An elegant site for the John Dickson Carr enthusiast.
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Cassiday, Bruce
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- Wrote radio mysteries for Suspense and other anthology shows, and detective stories for pulp magazines. He has published over 90 books.
Citations:
1. 'Mayhem in the Mainstream: A Study in Bloodlines,' by Bruce Cassiday, The Murder Mystique, edited by Lucy Freeman. Frederick Ulgar Publishing, 1982.
-The Murder Mystique is available from the CAIRO LIBRARY, or from www.abe.com.
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Chandler, Raymond
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- Creator of Philip Marlowe.
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Citations:
1. 'Chandler on Screen, TV and Radio - With A Look at the Many Marlowes,' by William F. Nolan, The Armchair Detective, Volume 3, October 1969, Number 1, pg 23.
2. 'The Black Mask Boys Go Legit,' by William F. Nolan, The Armchair Detective, Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 1980, pg. 23-24 (reviews of Dashiell Hamett: A Descriptive Bibliography and Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography.
3. 'Raymond Chandler's Self Parody,' by Randall R. Mawe, The Armchair Detective, Volume 14, 1981, Number 4, pg 355-359.
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| Charteris, Leslie Thomas
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- Half Chinese, half English, the creator of Simon Templar, the Saint.
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Citations:
1. 'Notes on Very Early Leslie Charteris,' by Charles Shibuk, The Armchair Detective, volume 4, Number 4, July 1971, pg. 230.
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Chase, James Hadley
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- Most famous for his novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish.
Citations:
1. 'James Hadley Chase,' by Peter Dukeshire, The Armchair Detective, Volume 5, Number 1, October 1971.
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Chastain, Thomas
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- Author of the novel Nightscape (1982). Has written scripts for television.
Citations:
1. 'The Case for the Private Eye,' by Thomas Chastain, The Murder Mystique, edited by Lucy Freeman. Frederick Ulgar Publishing, 1982.
-The Murder Mystique is available from the CAIRO LIBRARY, and from www.abe.com.
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Christie, Agatha
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- Born on 15 September 1890,
in Torquay, Devon, England, and died on 12 January 1976, in
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England. The most famous mystery writer of all time.
Agatha Christie and other Mystery Writers:
Josephine Tey was the pseudonym of Elizabeth MacKintosh. According to Robert Barnard, in his introduction to a new release of The Singing Sands, Agatha Christie used Elizabeth MacKintosh (a playwright as well as an author) as the model for the playwright Anthony Astor in Three Act Tragedy. (It was not a flattering portrait)
Citations:
1. 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,' by Agatha Christie, critical analysis by L. David Allen, PhD, Cliff Notes: Detective in Fiction, 1978.
2. 'What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw,' by Agatha Christie, critical analysis by L. David Allen, PhD, Cliff Notes: Detective in Fiction, 1978.
3. 'Agatha's Stories: Christie's Bibliographers May Finally Rest For this is the Definitive Reference of her Mini-Masterpieces,' by B.A. Pike, The Armchair Detective, Winter 1991, Volume 24, Number 1, pg 92-102.
4. Introduction to The Singing Sands, Robert Barnard, copyright 1996, Scribner Paperback Fiction edition.
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| Coe, Tucker
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- Pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake.
Novels
Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (1966)
Murder Among Children (1967)
Wax Apple (1970)
A Jade in Aries (1970)
Don't Lie To Me (1972)
See entry under Westlake, Donald for citations.
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Collins, Wilkie
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- Wilkie Collins who was born on 8 January 1824 and died on 23 September 1889. In those 65 years he wrote 25 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and more than 100 non-fiction pieces. A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in 1870, Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens's bloomed. Author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone.
Citations:
1. 'The Moonstone,' critical analysis in Cliff Notes: Detective in Fiction, by L. David Allen, PhD, 1978.
2. Essay: Wilkie Collins and Dickens
3. Andrew Taylor on Wilkie Collins, from the British site, the Crime Writer's Association.
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Cox, Anthony Berkely
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Citations:
1. 'The Literary Career of Anthony Bekely Cox,' by Charles Shibuk, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, Number 3, April 1969, pg. 164-168.
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Creasey, John
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- John Creasey is a British author of many, many pseudonyms. Under the name J.J. Marric created the police procedurals of Inspector Gideon of Scotland Yard.
Citations:
1. 'John Creasey, Fact or Fiction?,' by John Creasey, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, Number 1, October 1968, Pg. 1
2. 'A John Creasey Bibliography,' by R.E. Briny and John Creasey, The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, Number 1, October 1968, Pg. 5
3. 'The Social Consequences of Crime-Writing,' by John Creasey, The Armchair Detective, Volume 4, Number 1, Ocober 1970, pg. 49.
4. 'The Best of John Creasey,' by Deryck Harvey, The Armchair Detective, Volume 7, Number 1, November 1973.
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Crispin, Edmund
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- British author, creator of Gervase Fen. The pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery. He was born on October 2, 1921. As Crispin puts it, ''Edmund Crispin' was born in April, 1942.' He had looked down upon detective stories until a friend loaned him a copy of John Dickson Carr's The Crooked Hinge. He liked it so much that he decided to write a detective book of his own. It took him 14 days - and it - The Case of the Gilded Fly - was accepted by the first publisher to whom he sent it.
Bruce Montgomery was also an accomplished organist and composer, writing much film music. He also wrote book reviews for newspapers. He died of a heart attack in September, 1978.
Books:
The Case of the Gilded Fly (Obsequities at Oxford)(1944)
Holy Disorders (1945)
The Moving Toyshop (1946)
Swan Song (Dead and Dumb) (1947)
Love Lies Bleeding (1948)
Buried For Pleasure (1948)
Frequent Hearses (Sudden Vengeance) (1950
The Long Divorce (1951)
Beware of the Trains (short story collection) (1953)
Glimpses of The Moon (1977)
Citations:
1. 'Im Memorium: Edmund Crispin 1921-1978,' by Jacques Barzun, The Armchair Detective Volume 12, Winter 1979, Volume 1, pg 13.
2. 'Edmund Crispin,' by Robert Bruce Montgomery, The Armchair Detective, Volume 12, Spring 1979, Number 2, pg 183-185.
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Croft, Freeman Wills
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1. 'Freeman Wills Croft,' by James Keddie, Jr., The Armchair Detective, Volume 2, Number 3, April 1969, pg. 137.
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| Cross, Amanda
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- pseudonym of Carolyn Heilbrun, a tenured professor in the Columbia University English department. Creator of amateur detectve Kate Fansler (see under Characters).
Citations:
1. 'The ''Amanda Cross'' Case: Socializing the U.S. Mystery',' by J. M. Purcell, The Armchair Detective, Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 1980, pg. 36-40.
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Curry, Avon
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- Author of several novels including A Place of Execution, The Fetish Murders, The Girl in the Killer's Bed and Derry Down Death.
Citations:
1. 'Vigil in Mayfair: A Tale Unfolds Over Cucumber Sandwiches,' (brief comments on they mystery by H.R.F. Keating, Julian Symons, Celia Fremlin, Peter Dickinson and Avon Curry), Murderess Ink, edited by Dilys Winn, Workman Publishing, 1979.
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Curtis, Ursula
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- Ursula Curtiss is the daughter of mystery writer Helen Reilly, her sister is mystery writer Mary McCullen.
Citations:
1. 'An Interview with Ursula Curtis,' by Ann Waldron, The Armchair Detective, Volume 4, Number 3, April 1971, pgs 140-144.
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