Created by Christopher Monig
Pseudonym of Kendall Foster Crossen
Other pseudonyms include Bennett Barlay, M. E. Chaber, Richard Foster & Clay Richards|
(1910-81)
You want pulp?
New York-based insurance claims adjuster BRIAN BRETT narrated his own adventures in four slightly tongue-in-cheek novels by Christopher Monig in the fifties, and was very much a man of his time: cynical, wise-cracking, hard-boiled and hard-drinking.
Nothing special, perhaps, but they’re action-packed, easy-breezy-reads, and just the fix when you’re not getting enough pulp fibre in your reading diet.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Monig was actually Kendall Foster Crossen, who’s probably best known around these parts as M.E. Chaber, the creator of Milo March, to whom Brett bears a striking resemblance. In his career, Crossen wrote over 400 radio and television dramas, , some 300 short stories, 250 non-fiction articles and around forty-five novels. He also wrote reviews, and edited several science fiction collections, and served as editor for a while for Detective Fiction Weekly. He also created such private eyes as Necessary Smith, and outer space gumshoe Manning Draco. As Richard Foster (Crossen loved pen names), he wrote novels about gumshoe Pete Draco and Tibetan/American shamus Chin Kwang Kham, but under that monicker he’s best known for his numerous stories featuring The Green Lama, a popular pulp magazine costumed crimefighter of the 1940s.
NOVELS
- The Burned Man (1956; aka “Don’t Count the Corpses”) | Buy this book
- Abra-Cadaver (1958) | Buy this book
- Once Upon a Crime (1959) | Buy this book
- The Lonely Graves (1960) | Buy this book
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- You Better Get Some Insurance, Baby
You’re in Good Hands With These Eyes
Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
