Kendell Foster Crossen

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Kendell Foster Crossen

Kendell Foster Crossen (born July 25, 1910 in Albany , Ohio ; died November 28, 1981 in Los Angeles ) was an American crime and science fiction writer.

Life

Crossen was the son of Samuel Richard Crossen and Chlo Crossen, nee Foster. He attended college in Rio Grande , Ohio, and then worked in various professions before starting to write for radio and newspapers in 1939. In the 1940s he was editor of the crime magazine Detective Fiction Weekly and then began even detective stories for the pulp magazines of the time of writing, in which he several pseudonyms used, among others, Richard Foster, ME Chaber, Christopher Monig, Clay Richards and Bennett Barley.

Crossen is best known for his stories about the insurance detective Milo March, slurping martinis and quoting poetry, which he wrote under the pseudonym ME Chaber. In the 1960s, a number of these novels were also published in German translation, especially in Desch Verlag's “Midnight Books” .

In the early 1950s, Crossen began to write science fiction. To be mentioned here are above all the superhuman abilities "Green Lama " (published under the pseudonym Richard Foster) and the "Manning Draco" series (not to be confused with the two crime novels about "Pete Draco"), in which the adventure of an intergalactic sales representative among various alien races. Of the SF novels outside of the aforementioned series, mention should be made of Year of Consent (1953), about a computer seizing power, and The Rest Must Die (1959), which deals with the fate of a group of New York underground survivors after a nuclear attack make their way to New Jersey .

Crossen had married Lisa Palmieri in 1958 and had four children with her. His estate is in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University .

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Series

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

The Green Lama (Short Stories, as Richard Foster)
  • Babies for Sale (in: Double Detective, June 1940 ; also: The Case of Babies for Sale , 2011)
  • The Case of the Clown Who Laughed (in: Double Detective, October 1940 )
  • The Case of the Invisible Enemy (in: Double Detective, December 1940 )
  • Croesus of Murder (in: Double Detective, May 1940 ; also: The Case of the Croesus of Murder , 2011)
  • Death's Head Face (in: Double Detective, September 1940 ; also: The Case of the Death's Head Face , 2011)
  • The Green Lama (in: Double Detective, April 1940 ; also: The Case of the Crimson Hand , 2011)
  • The Man Who Wasn't There (in: Double Detective, August 1940 ; also: The Case of the Man Who Wasn't There , 2011)
  • The Wave of Death (in: Double Detective, July 1940 ; also: The Case of the Wave of Death , 2011)
  • The Case of the Crooked Cane (in: Double Detective, August 1941 )
  • The Case of the Fugitive Fingerprints (in: Double Detective, June 1941 )
  • The Case of the Hollywood Ghost (in: Double Detective, October 1941 )
  • The Case of the Mad Magi (in: Double Detective, February 1941 )
  • The Case of the Vanishing Ships (in: Double Detective, April 1941 )
  • The Case of the Beardless Corpse (in: Double Detective, March 1943 )
  • Dumont, Jethro (1976, in: Robert Weinberg (Ed.): The Green Lama ; as Kendell F. Crossen)
  • The Green Lama: The Complete Pulp Adventures Volume 1 (2011)
  • The Green Lama: The Complete Pulp Adventures Volume 2 (2011)
Jason Jones
  • The Case of the Curious Heel (1944)
  • The Case of the Phantom Fingerprints (1945)
Manning Draco (short stories)
  • 1 The Merakian Miracle (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1951 )
  • 2 The Regal Rigelian (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1952 )
  • 3 The Polluxian Pretender (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1952 )
  • 4 The Caphian Caper (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1952 )
  • 5 Whistle Stop in Space (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1953 )
  • 6 Mission to Mizar (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, November 1953 )
  • 7 The Agile Algolian (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1954 )
  • Once Upon a Star ( Fix-up from # 1 to 4, 1953)
  • Whistle Stop in Space: Further Adventures of Manning Draco, Volume 2 (Collection, 2014)
Jerry Ransomware (short stories)
  • Things of Distinction (in: Startling Stories, March 1952 )
  • Halos, Inc. (in: Startling Stories, April 1953 )
Milo March (as ME Chaber)
  • Hangman's Harvest (1952)
  • All the Way Down (1953)
  • As Old As Cain (1954)
    • English: the treacherous diary. Translated by Rosmarie Kahn-Ackermann and Georg Kahn-Ackermann . Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 85), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1961, DNB 450848752 .
  • The Man Inside (1954)
    • German: A man destroys himself. Translated by Walter Spiegl . Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 75), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1961, DNB 450848760 .
  • The Splintered Man (1955)
  • A Lonely Walk (1956)
    • German: The scandal. Translated by Eduard Wald. Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 204), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1964, DNB 450848787 .
  • The Gallows Garden (1958)
  • A Hearse of Another Color (1958)
  • So Dead the Rose (1959)
  • Jade for a Lady (1962)
    • German: Mission in Hong Kong. Translated by Hanny Bezzola. A. Müller (AM selection # 241), Rüschlikon-Zurich, Stuttgart and Vienna 1966, DNB 456304231 .
  • Softly in the Night (1963)
    • English: Quietly through the night. Translated by Paul Baudisch. Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 239), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1965, DNB 450848779 .
  • Uneasy Lies the Dead (1964)
    • German: Is Rako dead? Translated by Hanny Bezzola. A. Müller (AM selection # [Vol. 238]), Rüschlikon-Zurich, Stuttgart and Vienna 1966, DNB 456304282 .
  • Six Who Ran (1965)
    • German: The robbery of millions. Translated by Luise Däbritz. Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 365), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1967, DNB 456304274 .
  • Wanted: Dead Men (1965)
    • English: Wanted a dead man. Translated from the American into German by Rosmarie Kahn-Ackermann. Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 340), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1967, DNB 456304290 .
  • The Day It Rained Diamonds (1966)
    • English: A handful of jewels. Translated by Luise Däbritz. Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 355), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1967, DNB 456304207 .
  • A Man in the Middle (1967)
    • English: In Hong Kong's dark alleys. Translated by Melitta Dittmann. Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 397), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1968, DNB 456304258 .
  • Wild Midnight Falls (1968)
  • The Flaming Man (1969)
    • English: In the dark Los Angeles. Translated by Luise Däbritz. Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 463), Munich 1970, DNB 456304215 .
  • Green Grow the Graves (1970)
    • German: Secret mission for Milo March. Translated by Renata Blodow. Desch (Die Mitternachtsbücher # 508), Munich, Vienna and Basel 1970, ISBN 3-420-00508-3 .
  • The Bonded Dead (1971)
  • Born to Be Hanged (1973)
Kim Locke
  • The Tortured Path (1955)
  • The Big Dive (1959)
  • The Gentle Assassin (1964, originally as Clay Richards)
Brian Brett (as Christopher Monig)
  • The Burned Man (1956)
  • Abra Cadaver (1958)
    • English: Mr. Greene twice. Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Pocket Crime # 2296, Munich and Wollerau / Switzerland 1967, DNB 456304185 .
  • Once Upon a Crime (1959)
  • The Lonely Graves (1960)
Pete Draco (as Richard Foster)
  • Beer for a Chaser (1959)
  • Too Late for Mourning (1960)
Grant Kirby (as Clay Richards)
  • The Marble Jungle (1961)
  • Death of an Angel (1963)

Novels

  • The Laughing Buddha Murders (1944; as Richard Foster)
  • The Invisible Man Murders (1945; as Richard Foster)
  • Murder Out of Mind (1945; as Ken Crossen)
  • Satan Comes Across (1945; as Bennett Barlay)
  • The Girl from Easy Street (1952; as Richard Foster)
  • Year of Consent (1954)
  • Blonde and Beautiful (1955; as Richard Foster)
  • The Rest Must Die (1959; as Richard Foster)
  • Who Steals My Name (1964; as Clay Richards)
  • Acid Nightmare (1980; as ME Chaber)

Short stories

1951:

  • The Boy Who Cried Wolf 359 (in: Amazing Stories, February 1951 )
  • Restricted Clientele (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1951 )
  • The Last Touch of Venus (in: Amazing Stories, April 1951 )

1952:

  • The Ambassadors from Venus (in: Planet Stories, March 1952 )
  • The Gnome's Gneiss (in: Startling Stories, May 1952 )
  • Passport to Pax (in: Startling Stories, July 1952 )
    • English: Pax, Planet of the Riddles. Translated by MF Arnemann. In: Pax, Planet of Riddles. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 252), 1960.
  • The Hour of the Mortals (in: Startling Stories, August 1952 )
  • The Girl Next Door (in: Fantastic Story Magazine, November 1952 )
  • Get Along Little Unicorn (in: Space Stories, December 1952 )
  • Love That Air! (in: Startling Stories, December 1952 )
  • Public Enemy (in: Dynamic Science Fiction, December 1952 )
  • Love Story (1952, in: Kendell Foster Crossen: Future Tense ; as Christopher Monig)

1953:

  • My Old Venusian Home (in: Startling Stories, January 1953 )
  • Assignment to Aldebaran (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1953 ; also: Assignment in Aldebaran , 1954)
  • The Closed Door (in: Amazing Stories, August-September 1953 ; as Kendall Foster Crossen)

1954:

  • His Head in the Clouds (in: Startling Stories, January 1954 )
  • Plague (in: Science Fiction Adventures, March 1954 ; as Ken Crossen)
  • The Green Earth Forever (in: Spaceway, June 1954 ; as Christopher Monig)

1962:

  • The Golden Flask (in: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1962 ; as Kendell F. Crossen)
Anthologies
  • Adventures in Tomorrow (1951; as Kendell F. Crossen)
  • Future Tense (1952)
  • Murder Cavalcade (Mystery, 1953)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Crossen, Kendell Foster
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crossen, Kendall Foster (alternative spelling); Crossen, Ken (alternative spelling); Barlay, Bennett (pseudonym); Chaber, ME (pseudonym); Foster, Richard (pseudonym); Lorac, HCR (pseudonym); Monig, Christopher (pseudonym); Richards, Clay (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1981
Place of death los Angeles