Liz / Syndicate Girl

Frank Kane is most famous as the creator of detective Johnny Liddell, whose escapades thrilled paperback readers throughout the 1950s and 60s. These two novels offer a different side of Mr. Kane, the first novel being the story of a woman whose road to success is paved with murder, the second a hard-hitting thriller about a corrupt city and the man who stakes his life to clean it up.

Frank Kane was born in Brooklyn on July 19, 1912. Graduating from New York City College at 19, he began to attend law school. Needing the extra income, he began to work as a newspaper columnist, working his way up to editor before becoming a public relations director for the liquor industry. After WWII, Kane became a freelance writer and a radio and TV producer. It was the creation of detective Johnny Liddell in ABOUT FACE which made his fortune. Selling millions of copies throughout the world, Kane eventually published 30 Liddell mysteries, and ended up working in Hollywood where he created his own production company. He passed away at his home in Manhasset, New York, on November 29, 1968.