Richard Blakemore (1900 – 1994) was a prolific writer of pulp
fiction. Nowadays, he is best remembered for creating the Silencer, a masked
vigilante in the vein of the Shadow or the Spider, during the hero pulp boom of
the 1930s. But Richard Blakemore also wrote in many other genres, including an
early sword and sorcery series about the adventures of a sellsword named
Thurvok and his companions.
Richard Blakemore's private life was almost as exciting as his fiction.
He was a veteran of World War I and II as well as a skilled sportsman and
adventurer who travelled the world during the 1920s. He may also have been the
person behind the mask of the real life Silencer who prowled New York City
between 1933 and 1942, fighting crime, protecting the innocent and punishing
the guilty, though nothing has ever been proven.
Richard Blakemore was married for more than fifty years to Constance
Allen Blakemore and the couple had four children.
Cora Buhlert was
born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent
in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in
English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD.
Cora
has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles
and poetry in various international magazines. She is the author of the Silencer
series of pulp style thrillers, the Shattered Empire space opera series,
the In Love and War science fiction romance series, the Helen Shepherd
Mysteries and plenty of standalone stories in multiple genres. When Cora is
not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.
Visit her on the web at www.corabuhlert.com or follow her on
Twitter under @CoraBuhlert.
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