Judson Pentecost Philips was born in Northfield, Massachusetts. He travelled widely before completing his education at Columbia University. He began his career writing for pulp magazines in the 1920s. He created several series detectives under the Pentecost name: Inspector Luke Bradley, journalist John Jericho, PR man Julian Quist and Uncle George Crowder, as well as his best-known sleuth, Pierre Chambrun, the manager of a luxury hotel. Under his own name, he wrote the Peter Styles series, featuring a one-legged investigative reporter, as well as Danny Coyle and his assistant Donovan, and Carole Trevor, a PI and her ex-husband Max Blythe. In all, he wrote over 100 books. He was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America, served as its third president, and was given its Grand Master Award in 1973.
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A murder arranged
4 editions - first published in 1978 -
The black glass city
3 editions - first published in 1964 -
Nightmareat dawn
3 editions - first published in 1970 -
Hot summer killing
3 editions - first published in 1968 Borrow -
Backlash
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
A dead ending
2 editions - first published in 1962 -
Death delivers a postcard
2 editions - first published in 1939 -
Escape a killer
2 editions - first published in 1971 -
The Larkspur conspiracy
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
Thursday's folly
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
The vanishing senator
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
Walk a crooked mile
2 editions - first published in 1975 -
The wings of madness
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
Five roads to death
2 editions - first published in 1977 -
Why murder?
2 editions - first published in 1979 -
Death is a dirty trick
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The power killers
2 editions - first published in 1974 Borrow -
Target for tragedy
2 editions - first published in 1982 Borrow -
The dead can't love
1 edition - first published in 1963 -
The death syndicate
1 edition - first published in 1938 -
The fourteenth trump
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Killer on the catwalk
1 edition - first published in 1959 -
Murder clear, track fast
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Red war
1 edition - first published in 1936 -
The twisted people
1 edition - first published in 1965 -
Escape a Killer
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
The Larkspur Conspiracy
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Death is a Dirty Trick
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Five Roads to Death
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Murder as the curtain rises
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The brass chills
1 edition - first published in 1943 -
Whisper town
1 edition - first published in 1960
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| April 12, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Added photos to author pages. |
| December 29, 2008 | Edited by caf21 | Added pseudonym, added fuller name, added location, added death date, added bio, added photo. |
| September 5, 2008 | Edited by RenameBot | fix author name |
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