I'll Sing at Your Funeral - Paperback

by Hugh Pentecost (Author)

When ex-riveter Pat Cain accepted Emily Stoddard's offer to finance his singing career, he found himself hob-nobbing with a clique of voice teachers, theatrical coaches, a numerologist and an Indian Chief. It never occurred to him that violence and death simmered beneath the emotional outbursts of that motley crowd until Inspector Luke Bradley appeared, seeking information about Lydia Eagan, another of Emily's proteges, who had either been pushed or had jumped out of a hotel window. Thrill follows thrill in this engrossing mystery as Cain gives Bradley a sleuthing assist while trying to shield a lovely girl. "Fine puzzle and good, tough dialogue." - New Yorker

Author Biography

Judson Philips, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award winner, was born in Northfield, Mass. in 1903. He began his writing career in the pulp fiction magazines in 1924, while earning his journalism degree from Columbia University. In 1939 he won the $10,000 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest, using the pen name Hugh Pentecost, for Cancelled in Red. This marked a turning point in his career, as he created a second body of work for slick magazines and paperbacks as Pentecost. He continued using both names simultaneously, living between New York and Connecticut, producing more than 500 works. One of his best-known series was The Park Avenue Hunt Club, which appeared in Detective Fiction Weekly. Philips owned a newspaper, and wrote columns for other newspapers. He owned an equity summer stock theater, "The Sharon Playhouse," where he wrote and produced plays. In the meantime, he wrote radio and film scripts for movies and television. Later he hosted a political and arts program in Connecticut's "Northwest Corner," broadcast out of Torrington. Philips was married five times and had four children. He died of complications from emphysema in 1989, at age 85, in Canaan, Conn.