Monday, May 30, 2011

Mysterious Days: 30 May

1902
George Sims, is born in Iowa. He uses the pseudonym Paul Cain for his stories which are published in Black Mask. His only novel is The Fast One (1933) the story of gunman Gerry Kells and his dipsomaniac lover S Grandquist. Some consider it the "toughest tough guy novel ever written" which remains "as violent and disturbing today as when it first appeared."

1912
The "professor" of detection, Julian Symons, is born in London. A noted scholar, critic, biographer, novelist, president of the Detection Club, and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (1982).

He is the author of:
The Thirty-first of February (1950)
The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973)

His erudite study of crime literature, Bloody Murder (in US - Mortal Consequences) is a cornerstone analysis of the genre.

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