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Henry Leverage
1885–1931
A pulp-era storyteller with a life almost as dramatic as his fiction, he wrote crime, adventure, and mystery tales that reached magazines, novels, and even the screen. His work moves fast and leans into danger, underworld slang, and hard-lived experience.
9 Audiobooks
The Ice Pilot
by Henry Leverage
Whispering Wires
by Henry Leverage
The white cipher
by Henry Leverage
Beyond the wall
by Henry Leverage
The hollow lens
by Henry Leverage
Assignats
by Henry Leverage
The gray brotherhood
by Henry Leverage
The voice in the fog
by Henry Leverage
The crimp
by Henry Leverage
About the author
Henry Leverage (1885–1931) was an American writer of stories and pulp fiction novels. Sources available here describe him as a writer whose life fed directly into his work: he served time in Sing Sing prison, wrote during his sentence, and became editor in chief of the prison newspaper, The Star of Hope. He was also known as David Carroll Henry.
Leverage published widely in popular magazines including Argosy All-Story and Blue Book, and he wrote novels such as Whispering Wires (1918), The Ice Pilot (1921), and The Phantom Alibi (1926). His fiction ranged from detective stories and underworld tales to sea adventure, and he also wrote about criminal slang in pieces for Flynn's Weekly.
His storytelling reached beyond print. Two films were adapted from his work, including The Twinkler (1916) and Whispering Wires (1926). Even now, he stands out as one of those early 20th-century writers whose rough-edged, eventful life gives his fiction an extra charge.