Mystery and Crime Detzer, Karl: Karl Detzer Sampler

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Karl Detzer was born September 4, 1891 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A journalist and free-lance writer, Detzer began his career working for a Fort Wayne newspaper as a reporter and photographer. Following service in World War I, he came to Chicago where wrote advertising copy. He would leave this to write full-time on his own, writing for various pulp magazines, submitting screenplays to Hollywood studios, eventually working as a roving editor for Reader's Digest. He died April 28, 1987 in Leland, Michigan, where some years earlier he had made his home.

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