M.E. Chaber(1910-1981)

Kendell Foster Crossen was born in Albany, Ohio, and educated at Rio Grande College. He was employed by the WPA Writers Project in New York after working as an insurance investigator in Ohio. He was a prolific pulp writer and was editor of the pulp magazine "Detective Fiction Weekly". As the pulps died in the early 1950s, Crossen became a novelist. Although he wrote some science-fiction, most of his novels were crime or espionage fiction. As M.E. Chaber he wrote more than 20 novels featuring insurance investigator Milo March, including "A Lonely Walk".