MAX VAN DERVEER

A fairly prolific author of both books and short stories. Best known for the soft-porn world of Tokey Wedge, a short but effective PI.

According to Thrilling Detective: Lynn was actually a pen name of Max van derVeer, a prolific writer who pumped out short stories for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine  and Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine during the sixties and seventies. In fact, he seems to have written twenty-three of the Mike Shayne novellas, under the house name, of course, of Brett Halliday. He also wrote a few stories each about female spy Desiree Fleming, Federal Agent Kevin Kar and detective Gilbert Crocker, but by far his most popular creation was Tokey. And just to nail the lid shut on Lynn’s identity, it turns out that “Jack Lynn” was actually a play on Van DerVeer’s wife at the time: Jacqueline!"