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Hugh Pentecost
Aliases: Judson Philips
Hugh Pentecost was a penname of mystery author Judson Philips (1903-1989). Born in Massachusetts, Philips came of age as a writer during the golden age of pulp magazines, and spent the 1930s writing suspense fiction and sports stories for a number of famous pulps. His first book was Hold ‘Em Girls! The Intelligent Women’s Guide to Men and Football (1936), but it was winning the 1939 Red Badge prize for short fiction that started his career writing novels. Beginning with 1939’s Cancelled in Red, Philips would write nearly one hundred books over the next five decades.
His best known characters were Pierre Chambrun, a sleuthing hotel manager who first appeared in The Cannibal Who Overate (1962), and the one-legged investigative reporter Peter Styles. In 1973 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Although he spent his last years with failing vision and poor health, Philips continued writing daily. His final novel was the posthumously published Pattern of Terror (1989).
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Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, French Americans, Hotelkeepers, Pierre Chambrun (Fictitious character), Fiction in English, New york (n.y.), fiction, Peter Styles (Fictitious character), Chambrun, pierre (fictitious character), fiction, Large type books, Detective and mystery stories, American Detective and mystery stories, Quist, julian (fictitious character), fiction, English Detective and mystery stories, Styles, peter (fictitious character), fiction, American literature, Painters, Actresses, fiction, American detective and mystery stories, American fiction, Children's fiction, Children's stories, Crichton, tessa (fictitious character), fiction, Criminals, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, AmericanPlaces
New York (N.Y.), New York, New York (State), 427 Park Lane, Australia, Baker Street, Berkshire County (Mass.), Camden House, Cave of Ali Baba, Cell 13, Dartmoor, Florence, France, Hunter's Lodge, Kensington, Khartoum, King's Pyland, Lhasa, London, Maynooth, Mecca, Montpellier, Persia, Reichenbach Falls, Rue MorguePeople
John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Colonel Ross, Earl of Maynooth, Fitzroy Simpson, Grant Simon, Inspector G. Lestrade, Inspector Gregory, James Moriarty, John Straker, Mr. Strang, Mycroft Holmes, Ned Hunter, Ronald Adair, Sebastian Moran, Silas Brown, Silver Blaze, William Derbyshire, journalist and bon vivantID Numbers
- OLID: OL835884A
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Alternative names
- Judson Pentecost Philips
- Judson Philips
- Hugh Pentecost
- Philips, Judson (AKA Owen, Philip AKA Pentecost, Hugh)
- Judson P. Philips
- Judson Pentecost, Philips
- Philip Owen
- Hugh pentecost
- Judson PHILIPS
- Philips Judson
- Pentecost, Hugh & Johnston, Velda & Kruger, Paul
- Hugh PENTECOST
- Pentecost, Hugh, Jane Langton & Noah Webster
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