Name Hillary Waugh Awards Edgar Grand Master Award | Died December 8, 2008 Role Novelist | |
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Nominations Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Books Last Seen Wearing, Sleep long - my love, A death in a town, The missing man, A bride for Hampton House | ||
Hillary Baldwin Waugh (June 22, 1920 – December 8, 2008) was a pioneering American mystery novelist. In 1989, Waugh was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
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Career
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Waugh graduated in 1942 from Yale, majoring in art with a music minor. He was an editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. During his senior year at Yale, Waugh enlisted in the United States Navy Air Corps and, after graduation, received his aviator's wings. He served in Panama for two years, flying various types of aircraft. While in military service, Waugh turned his hand to creative writing, completing and publishing his first novel Madam Will Not Dine Tonight in 1947. He quickly published two more novels, but they were not very well received.
In 1949, as the result of reading a case book on true crime, Waugh decided to explore a realistic crime novel. With the cooperation of his fiancée, who was a student at Smith College, Waugh set his police procedural Last Seen Wearing ... in a fictional women's college. Published in 1952, the book was a significant success and is now considered a pioneering effort exploring relentless police work and attention to detail.
After Last Seen Wearing..., Waugh went on to publish more than thirty-five additional detective novels, many aptly described as "hardboiled". Pseudonyms include "Elissa Grandower," "Harry Walker" and "H. Baldwin Taylor."
Waugh married Diana Taylor, and the couple had three children. Waugh died on December 8, 2008.
Series
Sheridan Wesley
- Madam Will Not Dine Tonight (1947)
- Hope to Die (1948)
- The Odds Run Out (1949)
Fred Fellows
- Road Block (1960)
- Sleep Long, My Love (1959)
- That Night It Rained (1961)
- Born Victim (1962)
- The Late Mrs. D. (1962)
- Death and Circumstance (1963)
- Prisoner's Plea (1963)
- The Missing Man (1964)
- End of a Party (1965)
- Pure Poison (1966)
- The Con Game (1968)
Homicide North
- 30 Manhattan East (1968)
- The Young Prey (1969)
- Finish Me Off (1970)
Simon Kaye
- The Glenna Powers Case (1980)
- The Billy Cantrell Case (1981)
- The Doria Rafe Case (1981)
- The Nerissa Claire Case (1983)
- The Veronica Dean Case (1984)
- The Priscilla Copperwaite Case (1986)