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1891 – 1962

Helen Reilly (nee Helen Kieran) was born and raised in New York City in a literary family. Her brother, James Kieran, was also a writer, and two of Reilly's daughters, Ursula Curtiss and Mary McMullen, are also writers. Reilly's early books were police procedurals based on her research into the New York Homicide squad. Reilly also used the pseudonym Kieran Abbey.

1903 – 1989

Biography from http://mysteriouspress.com/authors/hugh-pentecost/default.asp: >**Hugh Pentecost** >**Aliases: Judson Philips** >Hugh Pentecost was a penname of mystery author Judson Philips (1903-1989). Born in Massachusetts, Philips came of age as a writer during the golden age of pulp magazines, and spent the 1930s writing suspense fiction and sports stories for a number of famous pulps. His first book was *Hold ‘Em Girls! The Intelligent Women’s Guide to Men and Football* (1936), but it was winning the 1939 Red Badge prize for short fiction that started his career writing novels. Beginning with 1939’s *Cancelled in Red*, Philips would write nearly one hundred books over the next …