Dear Ed,
>A St. Louis native and WW II vet, Krasner died a few
years ago from a
heart attack in Pennsylvania. He brought out several books in
the 1980s. Anthony Boucher was a big fan. Krasner has to be
one of those noir pioneer writers lost in the turn of the
century.
William Krasner is also one of my all-time-favorites, in
particular his Sam Birge/Charley Hagen novels.
In addition to Anthony Boucher, novels of William Krasner
were acclaimed by Raymond Chandler and Charles Willeford. The
first Birge/Hagen novel "Walk the Dark Street" (1949,
nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards/Best First Novel in
1950) was mentioned in Raymond Chandler's Favorite Mysteries,
and Charles Willeford characterized his third Sam Birge novel
"Death of a Minor Poet" (1984) as novelization of
24hrs-investigation day with high literarily impact.
Unfortunately, his Birge/Hagen novels were not bestselling.
Krasner had problems to find American publishers. For
example, his fifth novel
"Death, the Dancer" (1990) was only published in Germany.
Therefore, Krasner stopped his career as a mystery writer and
continued his work as a free-lance or staff writer for
various scientific and social science magazines and journals.
Krasner also wrote and produced nearly 100 television and
radio documentary programs, radio dramas, movie scripts, play
scripts, and novel dramatizations for television.
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