Monday, January 24, 2011

Tuesday, January 24, 1933

Mrs. R’s birthday. Went over, played pinochle. Mother got sick so me and her came home.

*Crime writer Gerald Tomlinson was born in Elmira, New York. His short stories appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, as well as in various anthologies, including Edward D. Hoch's Best Detective Stories of the Year, Gregory McDonald's Last Laughs, and Mary Higgins Clark's Murder on the Aisle. In addition to authoring a mystery novel, On a Field of Black, he wrote numerous nonfiction books and articles. Tomlinson died in 2006.


One of the four Mystery League Magazines published in late 1933 and early 1934 by "Ellery Queen"


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