PATRICIA MCGERR

1917 - 1985

Writing as: Patricia McGerr

A popular writer of crime novels, especially short stories for magazines such as Eller Queen Mystery Magazine, Ms. McGerr was born and raised in Nebraska. Her first novel, Pick Your Victim, which came out in 1946, was picked as one of the Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction for the first half century. She was best known for presenting an interesting twist in the tradional crime plot when she wrote a story in which the murderer is known but it is the victim who is the mystery to be solved.

Series		Books

Selena Mead		Legacy of Danger (ss) (1963)
		The King Will Die Tonight (ss) (1963)
		"Question, Mr. President" (ss) (1963)
		Fox Hunt for Selena (ss) (1964)
		The Secret Of Carthage (ss) (1964)
		Easy Conquest (ss) (1964)
		View By Midnight (ss) (1964)
		Murder In Red (ss) (1964)
		Selena in Atlantic City (ss) (1964)
		Campaign Fever (ss) (1964)
		Gift for the First Lady (ss) (1964)
		Latin Lesson (ss) (1964)
		Grand Prize For Selena (ss) (1964)
		Is There A Traitor In The House (1964)
		Holiday for a Lady Spy (ss) (1964)
		Good Loser (ss) (1965)
		Prophet Without Honor (ss) (1965)
		A Time To Die (ss) (1965)
		Find The Traitor (ss) (1965)
		Ladies Without a Past (ss) (1965)
		Fellow Traveler (ss) (1965)
		Ballad for a Spy (ss) (1965)
		Selena's Black Sheep (ss) (1965)
		Truth Or Consequences (ss) (1965)
		The Palace Spy (ss) (1966)
		Silent Night, Frantic Night (ss) (1966)
		Match Point in Berlin (ss) (1968)
		Legacy Of Danger (1970)
		Hide and Seek - Russian Style (ss) (1976)
		The Writing on the Wall (ss) (1978)
		Chain Of Terror (ss) (1979)
		A Date In Helsinki (ss) (1982)
		Numbers Game (ss) (1984)
		Caribbean Clues (ss) (1984)

Other		Pick Your Victim (1946)
		The Seven Deadly Sisters (1947)
		Catch Me If You Can (1948)
		Save the Witness (1949)
		Follow, As the Night aka Your Loving Victim (1950)
		Death in a Million Living Rooms aka Die Laughing (1951)
		The Missing Years (1953)
		Fatal in My Fashion (1954)
		Martha, Martha (1960)
		My Brothers, Remember Monica (1964)
		Murder is Absurd (1967)
		Stranger With My Face (1968)
		For Richer, For Poorer, Till Death (1969)
		Daughter of Darkness (1974)
		Dangerous Landing (1975)