Word: kurnitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...razor in a nick. This month the show tried picking its detectives from fans who write in. More like flatfeet than fancy-dans, the unpaid fans not only proved uniformly baffled, but dull. So last Sunday a group of experts from Hollywood appeared. One, Mystery Writer Harry Kurnitz, solved the mystery of the March of Death right...
Creator of these bookish detectives is tall, goggled Scenarist Harry Kurnitz, longtime mystery writer for pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell...