Harold Q. Masur

Harold Q. Masur ( born January 29, 1909 in New York; † September 16th 2005 in Boca Raton, Florida) was an American lawyer and writer.

Life

Masur studied law at the School of Law ( University of New York) and then began to work in a law firm. From there, he volunteered for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 and remained there during the entire Second World War.

After the war, Masur returned to New York and began to work as a lawyer. At the same time he began to write; with his novel Burry me deep he could successfully debut in 1947. In addition to his own name he also used the pseudonyms Edward James and Guy Fleming.

Masur was a member of the Union of Writers Mystery Writers of America ( MWA) and 1973-1974 also its president.

At the age of 96 years, Harold Q. Masur died on 16 September 2005 in Boca Raton and found his final resting place.

Reception

Masur first literary attempts were short stories, which soon also various pulp magazines like " Argosy ", "Popular Detective ", " Detective Story Magazine " and others published. He could achieve with his protagonist " Scott Jordan", a lawyer from New York who works the way there as well as a private detective, his greatest success. It seems that a lot has gone on autobiographical in this role, the "cases" certainly all of fantasy have sprung. The Scott Jordan series includes nine novels and an anthology of multiple narratives. In 1981, another novel by Scott Jordan, but clearly differed from the previous row and barely had a same name. The figure Scott Jordan is most comparable with Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason.

Works (selection)

  • Scott Jordan cycle
  • The name is Jordan. Stories. Pyramid Books, New York 1962.
  • Strange clients. Detective novel ( "send another hearse ", 1960). Scherz Verlag, Stuttgart, 1961 ( The black detective novels; 148).
  • The attorney. Random House, New York 1973, ISBN 0-394-46517-2.
  • The broker. St. Martin's Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-312-10589-4.
  • The mourning after. A Scott Jordan novel of suspense. St. Martin's Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-312-54953-9.
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