Background
He was born January 17, 1921 and died in September 1994. Chastain was born in Canada but grew up in the south of the United States.
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He was born January 17, 1921 and died in September 1994. Chastain was born in Canada but grew up in the south of the United States.
He attended Johns Hopkins University and worked in Baltimore, Maryland and New York City writing copy for newspapers, magazines and advertising.
He is best known for his bestseller as well as the sequel to that work. He served as the president of Mystery Writers of America in 1989. He was also known as Nick Carter and Thomas Chastain, Junior.
Chastain has worked as an author of crime fiction and mystery since his first work, Judgment Day, was published in 1962.
He became a novelist full-time in 1974. Before the success of those novels, Chastain wrote a series of crime novels featuring Max Kauffman the Deputy Chief Inspector for New York City.
His most well known work,, was a mystery novel about the murder of a wealthy cosmetics firm owning family, in which the solution to the mystery was not revealed. Readers were to guess who had committed the crimes and submit their guesses to the publisher.
The book sold over 1 million copies and was top of the New York Times best-seller in January 1984.
A sequel entitled The Revenge of the Robins Family (1984) was released. While not as successful it also sold well. He served as the president of Mystery Writers of America in 1989.
Chastain authored several other novels including, Where the Truth Lies (1988) with Helen Hayes and
Over the course of his career he also worked as a newspaper reporter and editors He co-wrote (with Sam Simon) the story of The Simpsons episode "Black Widower".
Chastain died September 1, 1994 aged 73 from lung cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
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