Baynard Kendrick

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Baynard Hardwick Kendrick (born April 8, 1894 in Philadelphia , † March 22, 1977 in Ocala ) was an American writer . He became famous for his detective novels and novels , some of which were made into films. He also wrote under the pen name Richard Hayward .

Life

Kendrick was the first American to travel to Canada at the beginning of World War I and join the Canadian armed forces there . During his missions - u. a. in England and France - one of his companions was injured and blinded. During a visit to St. Dunstan's Rehabilitation Center for the Blind in England, he met an English soldier who had the remarkable gift of being able to tell Kendrick many details about himself despite his blindness. During World War II , Kendrick served as an instructor for blind war veterans .

Baynard Kendrick created from his experiences from the thirties "a classic figure in detective literature, the blind Duncan Maclain ( called Longstreet ), who compensates for his blindness with almost unbelievable sensory performances, knowledge and ability to combine and therefore" can see in the dark "" . Supported by his partner Spud Savage and the two German shepherds Schnucke and Dreist , he solved Whodunit crime cases in twelve novels and three short stories . Kendrick's interest in the history of Florida gave rise to an almost equally well-known series protagonist , Deputy Sheriff Miles Standish Rice , whose experiences were captured in three novels.

Baynard Kendrick was a co-founder of the American writers' association Mystery Writers of America (MWA), had membership card number 1, and was also elected the association's first president in 1945.

Awards

  • 1967 Grand Master Award , the highest award of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) for special achievements in the crime genre and the consistently high quality of his works.

In addition, several works by Baynard Kendrick have received top recognition in major leaderboards. For example, “Out of Control” for 1945 is the top title in the popular American Anthony Boucher's List of Best Titles and “Blind Man's Bluff” for 1943 in Anthony Boucher's List of Important Titles .

Ellery Queen's Queen's Quorum records the anthology Kendricks Make Mine MacLain for 1947.

In the 105 Best Mystery Novels of All Time: A Preliminary List , the American critic and writer Charles Shibuk includes two novels by Kendrick: Iron Spiders for 1936 and The Odor of Violets for 1941 .

Works

Captain Duncan Maclain series

  • 1937 The Last Express
  • 1937 The Whistling Hangman (Ger. The Whistling Hangman . Alfred Ibach, Vienna / Leipzig 1940)
  • 1940 The Odor of Violets (made into a film )
  • 1943 Blind Man's Bluff (Eng. The trick of the blind man . Heyne, Munich 1973)
  • 1945 Death Knell
  • 1945 Out of Control (Ger. Out of Control . Heyne, Munich 1976)
  • 1947 The Murderer Who Wanted More
  • 1947 Melody in Death
  • 1947 The Silent Whistle
  • 1952 You Die Today
  • 1954 Blind Allies
  • 1958 Clear and Present Danger
  • 1958 Reservations for Death
  • 1960 The Aluminum Turtle
  • 1961 Frankincense and Murder

Miles Standish Rice series

  • 1936 The Eleven of Diamonds (Ger. The Karo-Elfer . Alfred Ibach, Vienna / Leipzig 1939)
  • 1936 The Iron Spiders (Eng. The iron spiders . EP Tal, Vienna / Leipzig 1938)
  • 1938 Death Beyond the Go-Thru

Individual works

  • 1934 Blood on Lake Louisa
  • 1945 Lights Out (made into a film )
  • 1948 The Flames of Time
  • 1949 The Tunnel
  • 1955 The Soft Arms of Death
  • 1952 Trapped
  • 1959 Hot Red Money
  • 1966 Flight from a Firing Wall

Anthologies

  • 1947 Make Mine Maclain (includes: The Silent Whistle, Melody in Death and The Murderer Who Wanted More)

Short stories

  • 1944 The Murderer Who Wanted More
  • 1945 Melody in Death
  • 1953 5 - 4 = Murderer
  • 1958 Silent Night

Film + TV

  • 1938 The Last Express . American film adaptation by Universal Studios . Directed by Otis Garrett. Screenplay: Edmund L. Hartmann. Actors: Kent Taylor , Dorothea Kent, Greta Granstedt, Don Brodie, Paul Hurst, J. Farrell MacDonald and many others
  • 1942 The Odor of Violets under the title Eyes in the Night (Eng. The trace in the dark ). American film version of MGM . Director: Fred Zinnemann . Script: Howard Emmett Rogers and Guy Trosper. Actors: Edward Arnold , Ann Harding , Donna Reed and many others
  • 1945 The Hidden Eye . Based on motifs by Baynard Kendrick. American film version of MGM. Director: Richard Whorf. Actors Edward Arnold , Frances Rafferty, Ray Collins , Paul Langton, William 'Bill' Phillips, Thomas E. Jackson and many others
  • 1951 Lights Out under the title Bright Victory (German victory over the dark ). Adapted from Robert Bruckner. Director: MARK ROBSON . Cast: Arthur Kennedy (Oscar nomination for best actor), Peggy Dow , Julie Adams , James Edwards , Will Geer , Jim Backus , Rock Hudson and many others
  • 1960 Change of Heart . TV pilot film based on motifs by Baynard Kendrick for the series Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse by Disilu Productions. Director: Richard Kinon. Actors: Robert Middleton, Donald May, Evan Evans and many others

Web links

Evidence and Notes

  1. ↑ Date of death cf. Baynard Kendrick - Biography, Photos, Movies, TV, Credits . hollywood.com. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
  2. ↑ Official Hp ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the clinic  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-dunstans.org.uk
  3. ↑ more detailed biography in the New York Times
  4. ↑ quoted from Gerhard Voigt ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.voigt-bismarckschule.de
  5. ↑ cf. List of MWA presidents
  6. ↑ cf. Sobin, Roger M .: The Essential Mystery List: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians . Poisened Pen Press, Arizona 2007. Edition 2007, pp. 302, 315
  7. ↑ cf. Queen, Ellery: Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story as Revealed by the 125 Most Important Books Published in This Field, 1845-1967 . Greenhill Books, London 1986
  8. ↑ cf. Sobin, Roger M .: The Essential Mystery List: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians . Poisened Pen Press, Arizona 2007. Edition 2007, p. 435
  9. ↑ Shibuk was co-editor of the famous Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection (McGraw-Hill, Columbus 1976), together with Otto Penzler , Marvin Lachman and Chris Steinbrunner , who received the Edgar Award in 1977 for their book - Best Criticism category
  10. ↑ as Eyes in the Night released
  11. ↑ a b c the novella first appeared in 1947 in the anthology Make Mine Maclain by William Morrow, New York, therefore listed under this year
  12. ↑ as You Diet Today published
  13. ↑ as The Spear Gun Murders published
  14. ↑ in later years as The Iron Spiders Murders published
  15. ↑ a b c appeared under the pseudonym Richard Hayward
  16. ↑ a b Stories with Captain Duncan Maclain
personal data
SURNAME Kendrick, Baynard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kendrick, Baynard Hardwick (full name); Hayward, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1977
Place of death Ocala