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Hake Talbot

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Name
  
Hake Talbot


Role
  
Writer

Died
  
May 23, 1986, Arlington, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

Books
  
Rim of the Pit, Magic and Showmanship, Thinking with a Pencil, The Hangman's Handyman, Cardigan Welsh Corgis

Hake Talbot is a pen name of the American writer Henning Nelms (1900-1986). Talbot was chiefly known for his impossible crime, locked room mystery novel Rim of the Pit (1944). Nelms reserved his real name for writing non-fiction about showmanship (his chief occupation was as a stage magician). He was the author of the book Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers (1969).

During a 1981 poll by experts arranged by Edward D. Hoch, for the preface of his anthology All But Impossible!, Talbot's Rim of the Pit stood second, next only to John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man (1935) as the best locked room mystery. Another novel, The Hangman's Handyman, which Talbot wrote in 1942, was not as successful. He also wrote two short stories, "The High House" and "The Other Side".

References

Hake Talbot Wikipedia