Richard Deming (1915-1983) was a solid and reliable pro whose crime-writing career extended from late 1940s pulps to early 1980s digests. He also wrote several volumes of popular non-fiction late in his life.
He is most likely to be remembered as one of the most prolific contributors to Manhunt and the early days of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and as a paperback original writer, sometimes of novels based on TV shows (Dragnet, The Mod Squad, and under the pseudonym Max Franklin, Starsky and Hutch). He was also a frequent ghost for the Ellery Queen team on paperback originals and for Brett Halliday on lead novelettes for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.
Books in order of publication ( a partial list):
Dragnet : The Case of the Courteous Killer – 1958
Fall Girl – 1959
Hit and Run – 1960
Kiss and Kill – 1960
Edge of the Law – 1960
Body for Sale – 1962
Anything but Saintly – 1963
She’ll Hate Me Tomorrow – 1963
Famous Investigators – 1963
Death of a Pusher – 1964
Big Jake -1971
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