Talmage Powell (1920-2000) was an American writer. He began his writing career in 1942. He created over 200 stories for the pulp fiction magazines, including Black Mask and Dime Mystery, writing in almost every genre and for all of the top magazines. After the demise of the pulps, Powell continued to write another 300 plus short stories for fiction magazines such as EQMM, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mike Shayne, Manhunt and Suspense. During the 1950s and 1960s a number of successful novels were published. His Ed Rivers series is recognized as some of the best Private Investigator stories from that era. Powell also had written four novels under the Ellery Queen byline (Tim Corrigan series) as well. Powell also contributed his creative talents to screenwriting and television work. Still active in the field, Talmage Powell has had a long and successful career by delivering suspenseful, intelligent, action based stories that any reader would enjoy. He died at a hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Powell also wrote as Robert Hart Davis, Robert Henry, Milton T. Lamb, Milton T. Land, Jack McCready, Anne Talmage, and Dave Sands. His series character was Ed Rivers.

Bibliography

The Killer is Mine (1959)

The Smasher (1959)

The Girl's Number Doesn't Answer (1960)

Man Killer (1960)

The Girl Who Killed Things (1960)

With A Madman Behind Me (1962)

Start Screaming Murder (1962)

Corpus Delectable (1965)

As Jack McCready

The Raper (1962)

As 'Ellery Queen'

Murder With a Past (1963)

Beware the Young Stranger (1965)

Where is Bianca? (1966)

Who Spies, Who Kills? (1966)