Marion Harvey was a Brazilian-born American lawyer who wrote a number of detective novels and plays in the 1920s. A rather elusive figure, he practised law in Ohio before moving to Los Angeles. A discovery of innovative New York publisher, Edward J. Clode (publisher of Armitage Trail’s Scarface), his 1922 debut novel, The Mystery of the Hidden Room was very well received, and introduced amateur sleuth Graydon McKelvie.
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Harvey went on to write several mystery novels and plays between 1922 and 1935. These include The Vengeance of the Ivory Skull, The Clue of the Clock, The House of Seclusion, and The Arden Mystery.
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These works often feature Graydon McKelvie, a Sherlock Holmes-worshipping detective. S.S. Van Dine noted in The Great Detective Stories, (1927) that “The deductive work done by Graydon McKelvie is at times extremely clever.”
Harvey’s plays have been performed in New York, Alabama and Pennsylvania.
| Born | 1900 |
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| Born | 1900 |
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Fiction, mystery & detective, general, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Investigation, Murder, Private investigators, mysteryTime
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