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Max Hale
A smooth, fast-moving crime writer from the pulp era, this author created the amateur sleuth Max Hale and built a long career around mystery and suspense. His stories helped shape the hardboiled magazine tradition that fed later detective fiction.
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The girl at Silver Thistle
by Max Hale
About the author
George Harmon Coxe was an American crime writer born in 1901 and best known for a long run of mystery and detective fiction. He wrote for pulp magazines before becoming widely known for his series characters, including Jack "Flashgun" Casey, Kent Murdock, Leon Morley, Sam Crombie, Max Hale, and Jack Fenner.
His Max Hale stories feature a wealthy Boston amateur detective who drifts into investigations with style and reluctance. Coxe's work is closely tied to the classic magazine era of crime fiction, where sharp plotting, danger, and fast dialogue mattered most.
He died in 1984, but his novels and series characters still appeal to readers who enjoy traditional mysteries with a hardboiled edge. Reliable portrait images were not clearly available from the pages I could confirm, so no author photo is included here.