Frank Kane

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Frank Kane (born July 19, 1912 in Brooklyn , USA , † November 29, 1968 in Manhasset , New York ) was an American advertising professional and is the author of numerous short stories , detective novels , radio programs, films and television plays .

Life

Kane attended St. John's Law School . He has worked as a columnist for The New York Press , as an editor for the New York Trade Newspapers Corporation , for the New York Journal of Commerce and in public relations , particularly as an advocate for the alcohol industry. After the Second World War he was a freelance writer, later on the radio, where he introduced movie stars, and on television.

Kane wrote for the productions The Shadow , Gang Busters , Counter Spy , The Fat Man , Casey, Crime Photographer , Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons , The Lawless Twenties , Nick Carter, Master Detective and for the documentary about the coast guard You Have To go out . He created Call the Police for Lever Brothers and Claim Agent for NBC . In the 1940s to 1960s he wrote about 40 novels (mostly about the character Johnny Liddell). He has also written numerous short stories for crime magazines such as Manhunt , The Saint Detective Magazine , Private Eye , Pursuit .

Most recently he was in Hollywood a lot, where he played television games and a. wrote for the shows Special Agent 7 and The Investigators .

His novel Key Witness was shot as a feature film in 1960 .

Works

Novels about Johnny Liddell

  • About Face ( Death About Face , The Fatal Foursome ; 1947)
  • Green Light for Death (1949)
  • Slay Ride (1950)
  • Bullet Proof (1951)
  • Dead Weight (1951)
  • Bare Trap (1952)
  • Poisons Unknown (1953)
  • Grave Danger (1954)
  • Red Hot Ice (1955)
  • A Real Gone Guy (1956)
  • The Living End (1957)
  • Trigger Mortis (1958)
  • A Short Beer (1960)
  • Time To Prey (1960)
  • Due Or Die (1961)
  • The Mourning After (1961)
  • Dead Rite (1962)
  • Crime Of Their Life (1962)
  • Ring-a-thing-thing (1963)
  • Hearse Class Male (1963)
  • Johnny Come Lately (1963)
  • Barely Lakes (1964)
  • Final Curtain (1964)
  • Fatal Undertaking (1964)
  • The Guilt Edged Frame (1964)
  • Esprit de Corpse (1965)
  • Two To Tangle (1965)
  • Maid In Paris (1966)
  • Margin For Terror (1967)

Other novels

  • Key Witness (1956)
  • Syndicate Girl (1958)
  • Liz (1958)
  • Juke Box King (1959)
  • The Line-Up (1959; novel for the TV series)
  • Trial By Fear (1959)
  • The Flesh Peddlers (1959; under the pseudonym Frank Boyd )
  • Johnny Staccato (1960; novel for the TV series, under the pseudonym Frank Boyd )
  • The Conspirators (1962)

travel

  • Travel is for the birds

German

  • The final proof
  • Those who don't pay have to die
  • In the chains of the Syndicate
  • The last song
  • Doom
  • The curtain falls
  • Key witness for the prosecution
  • The wonder drug
  • A dead man returns
  • Murder out of jealousy
  • Johnny and the Syndicate
  • Death in the first round
  • The girl Liz

Movie

  • Key Witness ( The Wolves of Los Angeles , 1960)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Maura Fox: Frank Kane. An appreciation and biography. www.thrillingdetectives.com
personal data
SURNAME Kane, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American attorney and advertising professional, and author of numerous short stories, detective novels, radio shows, films, and television games
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York (USA)
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1968
Place of death Manhasset , New York