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Dickson Carr, who once commented that 'Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity'. Edward Dentinger Hoch (pronounced "Hoke") was born in Rochester, upstate New York, in 1930. His father was a banker who survived the Wall Street crash and the subsequent Depression. enrolled in the University of Rochester in 1947 but dropped out after two years, taking a researcher's job at the local library. He enlisted in the US army in 1950 and after basic training became a military policeman at Fort Jay, close to Manhattan, where he began attending the monthly meetings of the newly formed Mystery Writers of America (MWA). In 1952 he joined the paperback publishers Pocket Books and began to write - and get rejected - a year or so later taking a copywriter's job with the Hutchins agency back in Rochester.
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tells his tales with humor, but his first-person narratives give readers a close look at his distress at the murders he investigates and his sympathy for the survivors. Because most of the tales take place in a single small town, the series has a larger-than-usual cast of recurring minor characters.
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Dentinger", "R. L. Stevens", "Pat McMahon", "Anthony Circus", "Irwin Booth", "R. E. Porter", "Mr. X" and the House Name "Ellery Queen". In many cases, he also had a story under his own name in the same magazine issue. Hoch also wrote a
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Hawthorne is a retired family practitioner who is also a specialist in impossible murders. His tales are told as reminiscences of his small-town medical practice in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Sam Hawthorne tries to live a quiet life in the fictional New England town of Northmont, but
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Leopold stories best illustrate one of the attractions of Hoch's series tales: The characters age and alter realistically with time. In the course of the series, Leopold has divorced, remarried, retired, returned to work, and retired a second time. Lieutenant Fletcher has been promoted to
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Simon Ark was the protagonist of Hoch's first published story and ultimately featured in 39 short stories, which Hoch first collected in 1984. Ark appears to be an ordinary man in his sixties, tall and stout, but in many of the stories Ark implies that he is actually over 2000 years old, a
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