Hugh Pentecost
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Biography from >Hugh Pentecost >Aliases: Judson Philips >Hugh Pentecost was a penname of mystery author Judson Philips (1903-1989). Born in Massachusetts, Philips came of age as a writer during the golden age of pulp magazines, and spent the 1930s writing suspense fiction and sports stories for a number of famous pulps. His first book was Hold ‘Em Girls! The Intelligent Women’s Guide to Men and Football (1936), but it was winning the 1939 Red Badge prize for short fiction that started his career writing novels. Beginning with 1939’s Cancelled in Red, Philips would write nearly one hundred books over the next five decades. >His best known characters were Pierre Chambrun, a sleuthing hotel manager who first appeared in The Cannibal Who Overate (1962), and the one-legged investigative reporter Peter Styles. In 1973 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Although he spent his last years with failing vision and poor health, Philips continued writing daily. His final novel was the posthumously published Pattern of Terror (1989).
Books
Baker's Dozen
Twelve short crime novels: Leslie Charteris - The Lawless Lady Mignon Eberhart - Introducing Susan Dare Cornell Woolrich - Nightmare John D. MacDonald - Death's Eye View Hugh Pentecost - The Murder Machine Erle Stanley Gardner - Death Rides a Boxcar Ross Macdonald - The Bearded Lady Fredric Brown - Murder Set to Music Rex Stout - The Zero Clue Ed McBain - Storm Daphne du Maurier - Don't Look Now Bill Pronzini - Booktaker
Big Apple Mysteries
The good Samaritan / Issac Asimov The imprtance of trifles / Avram Davidson The theft of the four of spades / Edward D. Hoch Pattern for murder / Frances and Richard Lockridge Green ice / Stuart Palmer Murder in one scene / Q. Patrick Jericho and the studio murders / Hugh Pentecost The adventure of the one-penny black / Ellery Queen From another world / Clayton Rawson The Crime Of the Century / R. L. Stevens Murder Is No Joke / Rex Stout The Phantom of the Subway / Cornell Woolrich Mom in the Spring / James Yaffe
Senior Sleuths
The evil that men do; The cat who could read backwards; No peace for the wicked
Hound Dunnit
Contains: "The Sleeping Dog" by Ross MacDonald "The Enemy" by Charlotte Armstrong "The Dog Who Hated Jazz" by William Bankier "[Silver Blaze]( by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Dark Road Home" by Paul W. Fairman "The Emergency Exit Affair" by Michael Gilbert "How Come My Dog Don't Bark?" by Ron Goulart, "Dispatching Bootsie" by Joyce Harrington "Captain Leopold Goes to the Dogs" by Edward D. Hoch "Lincoln's Doctor's Son's Dog" by Warner Law The Dogsbody Case" by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. "Puzzle for Poppy" by Q. Patrick "Chambrun Gets the Message" by Hugh Pentecost "Raffles on the Trail of the Hound" by Barry Perowne "Coyote and Quarter-Moon" by Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallman "Sellin' Some Wood" by John Rudin "A Dog in the Daytime" (aka "The Body in the Hall" and "Die Like a Dog") by Rex Stout.
The Detective Story
Annotated anthology textbook of detective stories for American high schools, containing literary history and criticism with student exercises designed to deepen similar literary sensibilities. Contains: Edgar Allan Poe The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The purloined letter -- The gold bug -- Arthur Conan Doyle Study in scarlet (excerpts) -- Final Problem [Adventure of the Empty House]( The American Sherlock Holmes: Ellery Queen The telltale bottle -- My queer dean! -- The adventure of the president's half dome -- The others: The problem of cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle -- The invisible man by G.K. Chesterton -- The mystery of Hunter's Lodge by Agatha Christie -- The adventurous exploit of the cave of Ali Baba by Dorothy Sayers -- Mr. Strang performs an experiment by William Brittain -- There were female sleuths before women's liberation: Locked doors by Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Village murders by Agatha Christie -- You bet your life by Stuart Palmer -- Mom and the haunted mink by James Yaffe -- Variations: In the heat of the night (excerpts) by John [Dudley] Ball -- The world series murder by Rex Stout -- The day the children vanished by Hugh Pentecost -- The stolen cigar case by Bret Harte.
The Obituary Club
Charlie Chaplin-caliber actor leaves $100,000 to one of seven 'friends.' Which one? According to the will, one of the seven (any one) has to die before the bequest is fulfilled. Someone is plotting a quick resolution to the membership quandry of the Obituary Club.