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Karl Detzer (1891–1987)

Author of The Mightiest Army

12+ Works 30 Members

About the Author

Includes the names: Karl W. Detzer, Colonel Karl Detzer

Image credit: c. 1942

Works by Karl Detzer

The Mightiest Army (1945) 10 copies

Myself When Young (1968) 6 copies

Carl Sandburg: A Study in Personality and Background (1941) 3 copies

The Army reader (1943) 2 copies

True Tales of the D.C.I., Division of Criminal Investigation (1925) 2 copies

No Clues 1 copy

Murder in the Movies (1937) 1 copy

Out-of-Date Set 1 copy

The Marked Man: A Romance of the Great Lakes (1927) 1 copy

Pirate of the Pine Lands (1929) 1 copy

Tillie Scrubbed On 1 copy

Firefighters! (2015) 1 copy

Associated Works

Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection (1965) — Contributor — 113 copies

The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018) — Contributor — 102 copies, 1 review

The World's Best One Hundred Detective Stories, Volume 10 (1929) — Contributor — 23 copies, 2 reviews

Show Business Is Murder (1983) — Contributor — 14 copies

ARGOSY OCTOBER 15, 1938 VOLUME 285 NUMBER 3 (1938) — Contributor — 2 copies

ARGOSY DECEMBER 3, 1938 VOLUME 286 NUMBER 4 ["FLYING COLOURS"] ["THE SHIP OF ISHTAR"] (1938) — Contributor — 2 copies

Adventure, June 15, 1928 (1928) — Contributor — 2 copies

Argosy, September 17, 1938 (1938) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Other names: Detzer, Colonel Karl
Detzer, Karl W.
Birthdate: 1891-09-04
Date of death: 1987-04-28
Gender: male
Occupations: editor (Reader's Digest)
journalist
photographer
soldier
investigator
advertising manager (show all 8)
screen writer
technical director
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Place of death: Branford, Connecticut, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Chandler H. Whipple

Statistics

Works: 12
Also by: 8
Members: 30
Popularity: #449,941
Rating: ½ 3.6

ISBNs: 1

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