Created by Richard Foster
Pseudonym of Kendall Foster Crossen
Other pseudonyms include Bennett Barlay, M. E. Chaber, Christopher Monig & Clay Richards
(1910-81)
Two-fisted Miami Beach private eye PETE DRACO does all thse two-fisted private eye things a two-fisted private eye should do. In just two action-packed Gold Medal paperback originals written by Richard Foster, Bier for a Chaser (1959) and Too Late for Mourning (1960), he manages to run into a more vicious thugs, naked babes, crooked cops, treacherous dames, savage beatings, double crosses and plot convolutions than you can shake a blackjack at.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Foster was actually Kendall Foster Crossen who, in the course of his long and prolific career, wrote over 400 radio and television dramas, some 300 short stories, 250 non-fiction articles and around forty-five novels. Under the Foster pen name he wrote a couple of private eye novels featuring Tibetan/American Chin Kwang Kham, but was mostly celebrated for his stories featuring the Green Lama, a popular pulp magazine costumed crimefighter of the 1940s. He also wrote reviews, and edited several science fiction collections, and served as editor for a while for Detective Fiction Weekly. His radio credits include The Green Lama, Suspense, The Saint, and Mystery Theater, and for television he penned episodes of 77 Sunset Strip, The Man from Blackhawk, and Perry Mason). Crossen’s probably best known in these parts, though, as M.E. Chaber, the writer of numerous books and stories featuring insurance investigator Milo March, as well as creating such private eyes as Brian Brett, Necessary Smith, and outer space gumshoe Manning Draco.
NOVELS
- Bier for a Chaser (1959) | Buy this book
- Too Late for Mourning (1960) | Buy this book
Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
