A Fiend in Need

Professor Caldwel Mystery #2

by Milton K. Ozaki

While paying a social call on a colleague, Professor Caldwell and Bendy Brinks discover a dead body in an elevator, and soon find themselves working on another murder case for Lieutenant Phelan of the Chicago Police Department.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Aka Robert O. Saber.

Milton K. Ozaki, born in Racine, Wisconsin from a Japanese father (Jingaro Ozaki, who later changed his name to Frank) and an American mother, Augusta Rathbun, was a journalist, a reporter and a beauty parlor operator (the Monsieur Meltoine beauty salon, in the Gold Coast section of Chicago). He is the author of approximately two dozen popular mid-20th Century detective novels under both his given name and the pseudonym Robert O. Saber, and is considered one of the first American mystery writers of Japanese descent. He died in Sparks, Nevada.

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pornographer uses hypnotism to create his alibi for murder.

[Mark Rabideau · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent noir detective novel, exceptionally well narrated.