Albert Benjamin Cunningham (1888-1962) was born in Linden, West Virginia. In 1913 he received a B.A. degree from Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio. He obtained an M.A. degree from New York University in 1916. During World War I, he served as a chaplain for a short time. After the war he received a Ph.D. in Sociology and Psychology. He taught English for the rest of his career, and retired in 1945 as professor emeritus. His series detective is Jess Roden, a Kentucky sheriff. Cunningham also wrote one book under the pseudonym ‘Estil Dale’.

Bibliography

Murder at Deer Lick (1939)

Murder at the Schoolhouse (1940)

The Strange Death of Manny Square (1941)

The Bancock Murder Case (1942)

Death at The Bottoms (1942)

The Affair of the Boat Landing (1943)

The Great Yant Mystery (1943)

Death Visits the Apple Hole (1945)

Murder Before Midnight (1945)

The Cane-Patch Mystery (1946)

Death of a Bullionaire (1946)

Death Rides a Sorrel Horse (1946)

One Man Must Die (1946)

Death Haunts the Dark Lane (1948)

The Death of a Wordly Woman (1948)

Murder Without Weapons (1949)

The Hunter Is the Hunted {aka Blood Runs Cold} (1950)

The Killer Watches the Manhunt (1950)

Skeleton in the Closet (1951)

Who Killed Pretty Becky Low? (1951)

Strange Return (1952)