GEORGE HARMON COXE _was born in Olean, New York, and spent his
youth there and in nearby Elmira. After a year at Purdue and one
at Cornell, he worked for five years on newspapers in California,
Florida, and New York, and did advertising for a New England
printer for five years more. Since that time he has devoted
himself to writing--for two years with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, then
as a free-lance, selling numerous short stories, novelettes, and
serials to magazines as well as to motion-picture, radio, and
television producers._
_He is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America._