Monday, March 21, 2011

Mysterious Days: 21 March, 1907: David Alexander


On 21 March, 1907, David Alexander was born. The author of eight novels that are "expert portrayals of New York's Time Square in the 1950s. The first novel, Terror on Broadway (1954), features a Ripper-style character who leaves calling cards on his victims reading "Compliments of Waldo," and who is later vanquished by Alexander's series' newspaper columnist-detective, Bart Hardin of The Broadway Times Newspaper.

Bibliography
The Mystery Book of Days, William Malloy, The Mysterious Press, 1990

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