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

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