Stewart Sterling (1895-1976) was the pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, who also wrote under the names of Spencer Dean and Jay de Bekker. Winchell was born in Illinois and worked as a journalist. He preferred to write about non-typical investigative bodies; the NY Harbor Police and Fire Brigade, for instance. He was also a screenwriter and writer of radio scripts, as well as many magazine stories. His series characters were Fire Marshal Ben Pedley and PI Gil Vine. Spencer Dean’s primary character was Don Cadee, a department store detective.
An evaluation of some of Sterling's books can be found here.
Bibliography
Five Alarm Funeral (1942)
Down Among the Dead Men (1943)
Where There's Smoke (1946)
Dead Wrong (1947)
Dead Sure (1949)
Alarm in the Night (1949)
Dead of Night (1950)
Nightmare at Noon (1951)
The Big Ear (1953)
Alibi Baby (1955)
The Hinges of Hell (1956)
Dead Right (1956)
Candle For a Corpse (1957) aka Too Hot To Kill
Dead to the World (1958)
Fire on Fear Street (1958)
Dead Certain (1960)
The Body in the Bed (1959)
Dead Certain (1960)
Dying Room Only (1960)
Too Hot to Handle (1962)
As Spencer Dean
The Frightened Fingers (1954)
The Scent of Fear (1954) aka The Smell of Fear
Marked Down for Murder (1956)
Murder on Delivery (1957)
Dishonor Among Thieves (1958)
The Merchant of Murder (1959)
Price Tag For Murder (1959)
Murder After a Fashion (1960)
Credit for a Murder (1961)
As Dexter St Clair
Saratoga Mantrap (1951)
The Lady's Not For Living (1963)
As Jay de Bekker
Gutter Gang (1954)
Keyhole Peeper (1955)
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