Baynard (Hardwick) Kendrick (1894-1977) was an American lawyer and executive who became a full-time writer in 1932. His first mystery novel, Blood on Lake Louisa was published in 1934. Kendrick was born in Pennsylvania. In 1914 Kendrick was the first American to enlist in the Canadian Army, one hour after that country declared war. He married Edythe Stevens in 1919 and Jean Morris in 1971, and became an executive and manager of hotels and publishing companies. Kendrick was the organiser and only sighted member of the Blinded Veterans Association. He was also a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and held membership #1. In the 1960s he retired to Florida.
Kendrick also wrote two books as Richard Hayward. His series characters were the blind Captain Duncan Maclain and Miles Standish Rice.
Bibliography
The Duncan Maclain series
The Last Express (1937)
The Whistling Hangman (1937)
The Odor of Violets (1940)
Blind Man's Bluff (1943)
Death Knell (1945)
Out of Control (1945)
Make Mine Maclain (1947)
You Die Today (1952)
Blind Allies (1954)
Reservations for Death (1957)
Clear and Present Danger (1958)
The Aluminium Turtle (1960)
Frankincense and Murder (1961)
The Florida Deputy Sheriff Standish Rice novel series
The Iron Spiders (1936)
The Eleven of Diamonds (1936)
Death Beyond the Go-Thru (1938)
Others
Blood on Lake Louisa (1947)
The Tunnel (1949)
Red Hot Money (1959)
Flight from a Firing Wall (1966)
As Richard Hayward:
Trapped (1952)
The Soft Arms of Death (1955)
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