Product Description
by Hugh Pentecost (Author)
Just as Cancelled in Red took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racket, so this mystery tangles Bradley up in the fast tanbark crowd.
The 24th Horse gallops after a host of hard-faced people, some of them with more money than is good for them - and others, unfortunately, with far too little.
From the minute Johnny Curtin drives a coup with the body of a murdered girl in the rumble seat to Inspector Bradley's door, this novel keeps moving - fast The 24th Horse is a tense, absorbing mystery novel that will hold the reader to the final page as Bradley sets a trap for a desperate killer - and finds himself face to face with death
Author Biography
Judson Philips, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award winner, was born in Northfield, Mass. in 1903. He began his writing career in the pulp fiction magazines in 1924, while earning his journalism degree from Columbia University.
In 1939 he won the $10,000 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest, using the pen name Hugh Pentecost, for Cancelled in Red. This marked a turning point in his career, as he created a second body of work for slick magazines and paperbacks as Pentecost.
He continued using both names simultaneously, living in New York and later Connecticut, producing more than 500 works. One of his best-known series was The Park Avenue Hunt Club, which appeared in Detective Fiction Weekly.
Philips owned a newspaper, and wrote columns for other newspapers. He owned an equity summer stock theater, "The Sharon Playhouse," where he wrote novels and produced plays. In the meantime, he wrote radio and film scripts for movies and television. He hosted a political and arts program in Connecticut's "Northwest Corner," broadcast out of Torrington.
Philips was married five times and had four children. He died of complications from emphysema in 1989, at age 85, in Canaan, Conn.
