Autor/-in: Q. Patrick

Q. Patrick. was one of the pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-1987), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-1966), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-1984) wrote detective fiction. Most of the stories were written together by Webb and Wheeler, or by Wheeler alone. Their best-known creation is amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow. was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Curtis Evans. is the author of several studies of classic crime fiction, including Masters of the “Humdrum” Mystery. , The Spectrum of English Murder. , and Clues and Corpses: The Detective Fiction and Mystery Criticism of Todd Downing. He edited the Edgar-nominated Murder in the Closet: Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall. and blogs at The Passing Tramp.