Max Hale

Created by George Harmon Coxe
(1901-84)

Charming, well-dressed, “about six feet tall and broader than the scales called for,” well-off and single, Boston blueblood MAX CHAUNCEY HALE is only a private eye as a sort of hobby, although he has been to the State Police Academy.

He’s certainly not working very hard at it — he’s only taken three or four jobs in the two years his long-suffering, sardonic secretary Sue Marshall has been with him.

Then again, he doesn’t need the money, coming from a “good” Beantown family. So it usually takes a bit of nagging from a very bored Sue before he’ll even take a case.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Coxe created other detectives, including Sam Crombie, Leon Morley, Paul Baron, and Jack Fenner, Burt he’s best known for his two crime photographers/amateur sleuths, Flashgun Casey and Kent Murdock, who are basically private eyes with cameras.

UNDER OATH

• “Hale plays ducks and drakes with police, smart set, and some small-time thugs. Wham bam action —  good reading..”
  — Kirkus Reviews on Murder for the Asking

NOVELS

• Murder For the Asking (1939) | Buy this book
• The Lady is Afraid (1940) | Buy this book

FURTHER INVESTIGATION

• Ah, Boston, You’re My Home
  Beantown Eyes

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.