Lee Thayer
Lee Thayer | |
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| Born | Emma Redington Thayer 5 April 1894 Troy, Pennsylvania |
| Died | 18 November 1973 (aged 99) San Diego, California |
| Resting place | El Camino Memorial Park |
| Pen name | Lee Thayer |
| Occupation | Book Jacket Artist, Mystery Novelist |
Emma Redington Thayer (pseudonym, Lee Thayer; Troy, Pennsylvania April 5, 1874 - San Diego, California November 18, 1973) was an American artist and writer of mystery novels.
Biography[edit]
Emma Redington Lee was born April 5, 1874. She studied at Cooper Union and Pratt Institute. Her husband was Harry Thayer, an artist.[1][2][3]
Thayer wrote 60 [2] mystery novels about well-mannered private investigator Peter Clancy and his valet, Wiggar. She wrote her first novel, The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor in 1919.[1] Her last novel, Dusty Death, was published in 1966,[2] when she was 92.
Thayer and her husband opened a publisher's art service, which specialized in book jacket art work.[1]
On May 11, 1958, Thayer was a contestant on What's My Line?
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Lee Thayer, Wrote Detective Stories". The New York Times. 1973-11-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
- ^ a b c "Detectionary". www.detectionary.nl. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ "The Art of American Book Covers - Ball Covers Identified by Lee Thayer". ilab.org. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
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- People from Bradford County, Pennsylvania
- American mystery writers
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
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