byChristopher Belvard Booth (1889-1950) is not well remembered today. Information on his life is hard to find, and some of the information available online is wrong—such as that Booth was a pseudonym of Isabel Ostrander (another pulp writer, with whom Booth sometimes collaborated). But he had a prolific career that began in 1920 and pretty much ended by the late 1930s. Over almost twenty years, he published more than a hundred stories—and not just mysteries, but also westerns and even some mainstream stories. But as of 1940, he seems to abruptly left writing, since only a couple more stories appeared after that date. And with most pulp magazines buying all rights to stories, including the right to reprint them under other titles in other magazines, it’s entirely possible these may be repri
