Cleve Franklin Adams was an American author. He also wrote under the pseudonym John Spain, and together with Robert Leslie Bellem under the joint pseudonym Franklin Charles. His series characters were Rex McBride and John J Shannon.

Bibliography

And Sudden Death (1940)

Sabotage {aka Death at the Dam, Death Before Breakfast} (1940)

Decoy (1941)

The Black Door (1941)

The Private Eye (1942)

What Price Murder (1942)

Up Jumped the Devil {aka Murder All Over} (1943)

The Crooking Finger (1944)

No Wings on a Cop {completed by Robert Leslie Bellem} (1950)

Contraband {aka Borderline Cases} {completed by Robert Leslie Bellem} (1950)

Shady Lady {completed by Robert Leslie Bellem} (1955)

As John Spain

Dig Me a Grave (1942)

Death Is Like That (1943)

The Evil Star (1944)

As Franklin Charles {with Robert Leslie Bellem}

The Vice Czar Murders (1941)