He also created Call the Police for Lever Brothers, and created, wrote, and produced Claims Agent for NBC, which was based on Kane’s character, Jim Rogers. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, The Lawless Twenties and Nick Carter, Master Detective. He also wrote for Counter Spy, The Fat Man, Casey, Crime Photographer, Mr. “In the detective-adventure genre, he spent three years writing Gang Busters. He exhausted half a decade or more working on that show, but also wrote for “a multitude of radio programs,” as Fox recalls. Kane’s introduction to penning mystery and crime fiction began in the mid-1940s, when he started turning out scripts for the popular radio-drama series The Shadow. director of the Conference of Alcoholic Beverages Industries, working part of that time “with government officials to end the prohibition of consumption of alcohol,” states Fox. A 1968 obituary in The New York Times says that Kane’s writing career began at the New York Journal of Commerce, “where he became editor of the wine and spirits page.” Fox explains that her grandfather also “served a couple of years as a columnist for the New York Press was Editor-in-Chief for the New York Trade Newspapers Corporation.” Kane did public relations work, as well, putting in two years (1943-1945) as P.R. But according to the recollections of his granddaughter Maura Fox, Kane dropped out sometime before graduation in order to make money faster (he hoped) in journalism. He was a graduate of the City College of New York, who had gone on to attend law school. His creator, Kane, turned 32 years old that same month.

Liddell evidently made his initial appearance in “Morgue Star Final,” a short story published in the July 1945 edition of the magazine Crack Detective Stories. He was the Brooklyn-born inventor of hard-fisted New York City private eye Johnny Liddell, who starred in 29 novels and almost three dozen short stories between the end of World War II and the Summer of Love. Another name to add to that growing list: Frank Kane. He also wrote under the pseudonym 'Frank Boyd'.One of the profound delights of my writing this new blog is discovering pulp-era authors whose work I have somehow neglected to read over the years, but who I now want to look up. He studied at New York City college, earning a BS and attended St. Frank Kane Frank Kane 1912- 1968 Pseudonym: Frank Boydįrank Kane Was born in Brooklyn.

Poisons Unknown by Frank Kane