Cleveland Moffett, "king of the promotional gimmick", is born in Boonville, New York. He is best known for The Mysterious Card (1896) which contained this special feature when first published: the final chapter was glued shut, and the purchaser was promised a refund if the book was returned with the seal unbroken.
C. Day Lewis
1904.
Poet laureate of Great Britain and mystery writer C[ecil] Day Lewis is born in Ireland. As Nicholas Blake, he is the author of the Nigel Strangeways series (The Beast Must Die, 1938; The Corpse in the Snowman 1941)
1907.
James Holding is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a prolific short story writer whose unusual detective, Hal Johnson the Library fuzz, comes across murders while tracking down overdue library books.
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