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. He created two series of novels: the first one features Mac, a private investigator from Chicago, the second features Pete Schoefield.

Bibliography

Mac series

* ''Draw the Curtain Close'', 1947 * ''Every Bet's a Sure Thing'', 1953 * ''Prey for Me'', 1954 * ''The Mean Streets'', 1954 * ''The Brave, Bad Girls'', 1956 * ''You've Got Him Cold'', 1958 * ''The Case of the Chased and the Chaste'', 1959 * ''The Girl Who Wasn't There'', 1960 * ''How Hard to Kill'', 1962 * ''A Sad Song Singing'', 1963 * ''Don't Cry for Long'', 1964 * ''Portrait of a Dead Heiress'', 1965 * "The Big Job" (short story), 1965 * ''Deadline'', 1966 * ''Death and Taxes'', 1967 * ''The King Killers'', 1968 * ''The Love-Death Thing'', 1969 * ''The Taurus Trip'', 1970

Pete Schoefield series

* ''And When She Stops'', 1957 * ''Go To Sleep, Jeannie'', 1959 * ''Too Hot For Hawaii'', 1960 * ''The Golden Hooligan'', 1961 * ''Go Honeylou'', 1962 * ''The Girl with the Sweet Plump Knees'', 1963 * ''The Girl in the Punchbowl'', 1964 * ''Only on Tuesdays'', 1964 * ''Nude in Nevada'', 1964

Other

* ''Hue And Cry'', 1944 * ''As Good as Dead'', 1946 * ''Mourning After'', 1950 * ''My Love Is Violent'', 1956 * ''The Case of the Murdered Model'', 1959 * ''The Girl Who Wasn't There'', 1960 * ''Hunter at Large'', 1961

References

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* * 1915 births 1981 deaths American crime fiction writers 20th-century American novelists American male novelists 20th-century American male writers Pulp fiction writers {{US-novelist-1910s-stub