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she was so popular that a series of movies starring Edna Mae Oliver and James Gleason followed

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By creating characters that could be one's next-door-neighbors and by relocating suspense

The stories even included the title structure “The Location Object Mystery” as used in the early Ellery Queen mysteries

Hoch's Ladies short stories Hugh Pentecost she was so popular thatHoch's short stories Hoch created many series characters, Among them were Dr. Sam Hawthorne, Jeffery Rand, Nick Velvet, Simon Ark, and Alexander Swift. Several series feature women sleuths. Hochs ladies were often faced with seemingly impossible crimes throat cutting in a locked room, shooting of giant cacti, murder in a giant hot air balloon, stabbing in a shower with no one present, poisoning of Chinese food as a last meal of a murderer, and more