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Judson Philips

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Judson P. Philips (1903-1989), a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award winner, began his writing career in the pulp fiction magazines. He made his first professional fiction sale in 1924, while earning a journalism degree from Columbia University. He became a frequent contributor to Detective Fiction Weekly, which featured his Park Avenue Hunt Club series. In 1939 he won the $10,000 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest, using the pen name Hugh Pentecost, for Cancelled in Red. This marked a turning point in his career, as he created a second body of work for slick magazines and paperbacks as Pentecost. He wrote under both names simultaneously, living between New York and Connecticut, producing more than 500 works. Philips owned a newspaper, and wrote columns for other newspapers. He owned an equity summer stock theater, “The Sharon Playhouse,” where he wrote and produced plays. In the meantime, he wrote radio and film scripts for movies and television. Later he hosted a political and arts program in Connecticut’s “Northwest Corner,” broadcast out of Torrington.

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The Larkspur Conspiracy
Representative edition published 1998
Open Work
Escape a Killer
Representative edition published 1997
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The champagne killer
Representative edition published 1992
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Zielscheibe des Bösen
Representative edition published 1984
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Death is a Dirty Trick
Representative edition published 1983
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Target for tragedy
Representative edition published 1983
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Murder as the curtain rises
Representative edition published 1981
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Why murder?
Representative edition published 1979
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A murder arranged
Representative edition published 1979
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Backlash
Representative edition published 1978
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Five Roads to Death
Representative edition published 1978
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Walk a crooked mile
Representative edition published 1976
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The power killers
Representative edition published 1975
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The vanishing senator
Representative edition published 1974
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The black glass city
Representative edition published 1974
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The laughter trap
Representative edition published 1973
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The twisted people
Representative edition published 1973
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Thursday's folly
Representative edition published 1973
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The wings of madness
Representative edition published 1973
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Nightmare at dawn
Representative edition published 1971
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Hot summer killing
Representative edition published 1969
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Murder clear, track fast
Representative edition published 1967
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The dead can't love
Representative edition published 1966
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The dead can't love
Representative edition published 1966
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