Created by Steve Fisher
Pseudonyms include Stephen Gould, Grant Lane
(1912-80)
Although he wrote a ton of crime and detective stories for the pulps, Steve Fisher actually wrote relatively few private eye characters.
One of them, though, was KIP MULDANE, a Hawaiian gumshoe who appeared in at least nine stories in Detective Fiction Weekly and Black Mask.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Fisher was a US Naval officer who had already peened over 200 articles for various service publications before he mustered out and moved to New York City to become a professional writer. He wrote for the pulps initially, churning out hundreds of tales (including several featuring Doc Savage), but mostly crime and detective stories, before turning to writing novels and screenplays for film and television. He worked on the screenplay for Song of the Thin Man and the Chandler adaptation of The Lady in the Lake (yeeesh!), but he’s probably best known for his novel I Wake Up Screaming, which was adapted into the 1941 classic noir film of the same title starring Victor Mature. According to his son, Fisher was responsible for close to 100 novels, over 900 short stories, and 120 movies or television screenplays. Other private eyes include Tony Key and Johnny Ryan.
SHORT STORIES
- “No Gentleman Strangles His Wife” (January 11, 1941, Detective Fiction Weekly)
I know there’s more, but I’m not sure what they are.
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- Let’s Go to Hawaii
Hawaiian Eyes
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
