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Wilson, Lee

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Lee Wilson (1917-2003) is the pseudonym of American writer Laura Elizabeth Lemmon.

 

Very little is known about Laura Lemmon. She was born on May 25, 1917. In the 1950s, she lived in Glendale, California and worked as an instructor at the Palmer Institute of Authorship in Hollywood. In 1959, at age 41, she married William B. Anson in California (apparently the couple had also been wed the previous year in Las Vegas) and they set up house in her Glendale home. By the 1990s, the Ansons had moved to Atascadero, California (San Luis Obispo County), where Laura died on October 26, 2003.

 

Her one and only novel, This Deadly Dark, was published in 1946 and tells the story of Matt Foster, police beat reporter for the San Francisco Globe, who is blinded in a vicious knife attack while following up an anonymous tip in a murder case. The tipster, a young man named Spud Hollis who had been fired by murder victim, is quickly arrested for both the murder and the attack. Even though Foster is convinced of Spud's guilt, he agrees to keep investigating at the insistence of R.B. Clancy, a new girl in town, up from Los Angeles where she works for a Hollywood news magazine. In order to get closer to the dead man's family and associates, he moves into the rooming house where the suspiciously un-grieving widow is living. With Clancy acting as his eyes, Foster begins to suspect that Spud is being set up as the fall guy as he uncovers details about a local gangster and a numbers racket. Foster is able to turn his disability into an advantage during the climactic fight with the killer in a darkened, windowless room.

 

The novel was published by Dodd, Mead & Company as part of their Red Badge Detective series. It was a winner of the semi-annual Red Badge $1,000 Prize Contest.

 

Bibliography

 

This Deadly Dark (1946)

 

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