Background
Lawrence Blochman was born in San Diego, California to Lucien A. Blochman, a banker, and his wife Haidee Goldtree.
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Persons this Mystery is about- Lee Marvin, a tall redheaded, and clean-cut, came to India to buy gold for a famous jewelry firm. He clings o the romantic notion that a man should lie to protect a lady in distress. Evelyn Branch is a pretty blonde with gray-green eyes, travels halfway around the world to marry a man who has other plans. She is no babe in the woods in spite of her big eyes. Harrison J Hoyt who can be the most charmingly disagreeable person in Calcutta, is a press agent with his long, sharp nose always in other people's business. Antoinette Vrai is a small, bulbous, and violently female, is attractive in an obvious way, but her engagement to Hoyt baffles Lee. It isn't necessary to marry Antoinette. Jacques Vrai who is Antoinette's father, is a tight-lipped and unpleasant man with scaly skin. He runs the hotel at Chandernagore. With many more characters that get involved in this Mystery!
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Lawrence Blochman was born in San Diego, California to Lucien A. Blochman, a banker, and his wife Haidee Goldtree.
As a junior at San Diego High School, Blochman reported school sports for the San Diego Evening Tribune and, as a senior, he replaced the Tribune sports editor off to serve in World War I. Blochman then attended the University of California, Berkeley where he edited the college newspaper, the Daily Californian. He graduated from college in 1921.
He began writing early. In the summer he served as a police reporter for the Tribune and a courthouse reporter for the San Diego Sun. After graduation he tried to write his "way around the world," working in Tokyo for the Japan Advertiser, in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post, the Far Eastern Review in Shanghai, The Englishman in Calcutta and the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune.
He returned to San Diego as city editor of The Sun in 1924.
Writing as Lawrence G. Blochman, he published more than 50 books, including many mystery and detective novels, as well as several hundred short stories, novelettes and articles Several of his stories were made into films, television and radio shows.
He also translated more than a dozen books and detective stories from the French, including novels by the celebrated Belgian writer, Georges Simenon. In 1948 Blochman served as the fourth president of the Mystery Writers of America, following Baynard Kendrick, Ellery Queen and Hugh Pentecost.
He died in New York City in 1975.
His widow Marguerite died there in 1991. Blochman"s family was of French Jewish origin and was among the pioneers in San Diego.
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