Alan Hynd

Alan Hynd (1903-1974) was an American true crime writer who wrote from 1920, when he joined The Boston Post as a general assignment reporter, until his death in January 1974. Over the years, he covered and published more than 1000 crime cases, for newspapers including the Boston Post, The New York Evening Graphic, The Trenton (NJ) Times and The Philadelphia Public Ledger. He contributed also to magazines such as The Reader's Digest, Liberty, True, The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers and Look, as well as the many successful "pulp" true crime magazines of his era: True Detective, True Police Cases, Master Detective, Official Detective and others. In 1951, he was cited by The New York Times as the highest paid true crime writer in the United States.

In 1943, Mr. Hynd wrote two wartime NY Times Best Selling books, 'Passport To Treason' and 'Betrayal From The East,' works covering Nazi German and Imperial Japanese espionage activity in the United States during the lead-up to World War Two. The latter was filmed by RKO Studios and was released in 1945. Several other non-fiction works followed, including The Giant Killers (1947), which covered how US Treasury agents battled organized crime, Alan Hynd's Murder, (1952), a compendium of classic homicide cases, and Murder, Mayhem and Mystery (1957) and compendium of some of the most notorious crimes of the 20th Century. Mr. Hynd's specialties, over the years, had become murders and swindles: killers and con men.

Several other books followed. Gradually, the best of his work is being republished in digital format by Red Cat Tales Publishing LLC of Los Angeles California. Currently available are Prescription Murder, Volumes, 1, 2 and 3 and Till Death Do Us Part, Volumes 1 and 2.

Mr. Hynd was born of immigrant Scottish parents in Trenton, NJ. He left school in eighth grade to work, but later attended Columbia University in New York City.