Patricia K. McGerr

(1917-1985) born at Falls City, Richardson County, lived in Lincoln. Author, editor, publicist, known as freelance writer for 40 years who created mystery form "whodunin?" in which the victim of the crime, not the culprit, is the unknown person to the reader, authored 17 novels and 46 short stories; recipient of three awards, including first prize in the 1967 short story contest of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, December 22, 1945, p. C-18 and Washington Post obituary, May 14, 1965, p. B-4 and Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, 3rd ed (St. James Press, 1991) 744-745 and Contemporary Authors-New Revision Series, Vol 61 (Gale, 1998) 305-307.

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