C.H.B. (Clifford Henry Benn) Kitchin (1895-1967) was a man of many talents. He became a solicitor in 1924, he was a farmer and a schoolmaster, and he made a good deal of money playing the stock market. He had eclectic interests, including botany, linguistics, music,...
Milton M Raison (1903-1982) was an American writer better known for his radio, television, and film scripts than his books, although his first book was adapted for the big screen. For more about his career in movies, see his IMDb profile here:...
The Black Camel (Grosset & Dunlap, 1929) by Earl Derr Biggers is the fourth of six mysteries Biggers wrote about Honolulu police officer Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American with eleven Americanized children. Inspector Chan’s appearances in a series of not...
Maude Louise Parker Pavenstedt (1892-1959) was born in Galveston, Texas, and attended the University of Wisconsin. She began writing early and documented her experience as the wife of the United States Ambassador to Italy during the years of political unrest before...
Nigel FitzGerald (1906-1981) was an Irish actor who starred in detective films and served as president of the Irish Actor’s Equity Association for a time. He wrote a dozen mysteries between 1953 and 1967, all published by Collins. Only half of them were also released...
