George Harmon Coxe

Born in Olean, New York, in 1901, George Harmon Coxe built a long career as a writer of crime and detective fiction. He wrote for pulp magazines and went on to publish dozens of novels, becoming especially associated with tough, briskly told mysteries.

He is best remembered for creating Jack "Flashgun" Casey, a crime photographer whose adventures grew into the widely known Casey, Crime Photographer. Coxe also created other recurring investigators, including Kent Murdock, and his work was adapted for radio, film, and television.

Over the course of his career, Coxe published 63 novels, with his last appearing in 1975. He was recognized by the Mystery Writers of America as a Grand Master in 1964, and his papers are preserved at Yale, a sign of the lasting place he holds in American mystery writing.