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Will Levinrew
b. 1881
A practicing dentist who also turned out clever mystery novels, this early 20th-century writer brought a neat mix of professional precision and storytelling flair to crime fiction. Writing under a pen name, he is best remembered for puzzles featuring the amateur sleuth Professor Herman Brierly.
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Death Points a Finger
by Will Levinrew
About the author
Born in Russia in 1881, William Levine later emigrated to the United States and grew up in New Jersey. He built a dental practice in Passaic and later also worked in Newark, while writing fiction under the pseudonym Will Levinrew.
Levinrew published mystery novels in the late 1920s and early 1930s, including The Poison Plague, Murder on the Palisades, Murder from the Grave, For Sale—Murder, and Death Points a Finger. Several of these books feature Professor Herman Brierly, an elderly professor and amateur detective.
Available sources describe him as more than just a novelist: he was also active in journalism, and some records note political activism as well. He died on July 24, 1951.