Male : Novelist, especially of detective fiction. Married Hazel Goodwin in 1919 (d. 1960) and then married Thelma Rinaldo in 1963

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Chicago, Illinois

Date of Birth : 1890 Date of Death : 1967 Age : 77

Other Work : Electrician & Engineer

Education : Illinois Institute of Technology

US Publication by Dutton unless stated
1924-1930
The Voice of the Seven Sparrows (1924 Hutchinson) (1928)
Find the Clock (1925 Hutchinson) (1927)
The Spectacles of Mr Cagliostro (1926 Hutchinson) (1929)
Sing Sing Nights (1927 Hutchinson) (1928)
The Amazing Web (1929 Ward Lock) (1930)
The Fourth King (1929 Ward Lock) (1930)
Thieves' Night (1929 Dutton) (1931 Ward Lock)
The Green Jade Hand (1930 Dutton) (1930 Ward Lock)
The Riddle of the Yellow Zuri (1930) (1931 UK as "The Tiger Snake" Ward Lock)

1931-1935
The Matilda Hunter Murder (1931) (in UK as "The Black Satchel" Ward Lock)
The Box from Japan (1932) (1933 Ward Lock)
Behind that Mask (1933 Ward Lock) (in US as "Behind that Mask & Finger ! Finger ! 1938 - 2 vols)
The Face of the Man from Saturn (1933) (in UK as "The Crilly Court Mystery" Ward Lock 1933)
The Washington Square Enigma (1933) (in UK as "Under Twelve Stars" 1933 Ward Lock)
The Mystery of the Fiddling Cracksman (1934) (1934 Ward Lock)
The Riddle of the Travelling Skull (1934) (1934 Ward Lock)
Ten Hours (1934 Ward Lock) (in US in a 3 vols set 1935-7)
The Five Silver Buddhas (1935) (1935 Ward Lock)

1936-1940
The Marceau Case (1936) (1936 Ward Lock)
X. Jones of Scotland Yard (1936) (in UK as "X Jones of scotland Yard" 1936 Ward Lock)
The Mysterious Mr I (1937 Ward Lock) (1938 Two Vols in US 1938-9)
The Wonderful Scheme of Mr Christopher Thorne (1937)
(in UK as "The Wonderful Scheme" 1937 Ward Lock)
When Thief Meets Thief (1938 Ward Lock)
Cheung, Detective (1938 Ward Lock) (in US as "Y Cheung, Business Detective" 1939)
The Man with the Magic Eardrums (1939) (in UK as "The Magic Eardrums" 1939 Ward Lock)
Find Actor Hart (1939 Ward Lock) (in US as "The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb" 1940)
Cleopatra's Tears (1940) (1940 Ward Lock)

1941-1945
The Man with the Crimson Box (1940) (in UK as "The Wooden Specatcles" 1941 Ward Lock)
The Peacock Fan (1941) (1942 Ward Lock)
The Sharkskin Book (1941) (in UK as "By Third Dgeree" 1948 Ward Lock)
The Vanishing Gold Truck (1941) (1942 Ward Lock)
The Lavender Gripsack (1941 Ward Lock) (1944 Phoenix Press)
The Book with Orange Leaves (1942) (1943 Ward Lock)
The Bottle with the Green Wax Seal (1942 Dutton)
The Case of the Two Strange Ladies (1943 Phoenix) (1945 Ward Lock)
The Search for X Y Z (1943 Ward Lock) (in US as "The Case of the Ivory Arrow" 1945 Phoenix)
The Case of the Sixteen Beans (1944 Pheonix) (1945 Ward Lock)
The Iron Ring (1944 Ward Lock) (in US as "The Case of the Mysterious Moll" 1945 Phoenix)

After 1946
The Case of the Canny Killer (1946 Phoenix) (in UK as "The Murder in the Mills" 1946 Ward Lock)
The Monocled Monster (1947 Ward Lock)
The Case of the Barking Clock (1947 Phoenix) (1951 Ward Lock)
The Case of the Jewelled Ragpicker (1948 Phoenix)
(in UK as "The Ace of Spades Murder" 1948 Ward Lock)
The Case of the Transposed Legs (1948 Phoenix) (1951 Ward Lock)
The Murdered Mathematician (1949 Ward Lock)
The Strange Will (1949 Ward Lock)
The Steeltown Stranger (1950 Ward Lock)
The Murder of London Lew (1952 Ward Lock)
Stand By - London Calling (1953 Ward Lock)