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Frederick C. Davis
A fast, prolific storyteller from the pulp era, he helped shape popular crime fiction with an enormous output of mystery, detective, and adventure stories. He also created memorable series characters and wrote under several pen names, making his work a rich discovery for fans of vintage suspense.
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Making Your Camera Pay
by Frederick C. Davis
About the author
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1902, Frederick C. Davis became one of the great workhorses of American pulp fiction. He wrote mysteries, detective tales, and adventure stories in huge numbers, later building a long career as a mystery novelist. Sources available here agree that he also used pseudonyms including Stephen Ransome and Murdo Coombs.
Davis is especially remembered for the range of characters and series he produced for pulp magazines. Reliable references found during this search note that he created the Moon Man and contributed heavily to detective and hero-pulp fiction, while later turning more fully to novels. That mix of speed, invention, and genre variety helped give his work a lasting place in popular crime fiction history.
He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1977. Even today, Davis stands out as the kind of writer who could move easily between hard-boiled mystery, pulp adventure, and classic whodunit storytelling.