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Podcast: Nightshade Diary
Episode: Murder in Old Manhattan | Frank Bonham | Podcast
Description: ​A detective of 1857 didn’t know about fingerprints, and he had to learn a lot about human nature. | Narrated by M.P. PellicerFrank Bonham was born into a family of writers. His grandfather, a gold camp judge, and his mother were poets. He wrote his first two stories at the age of ten. He suffered from asthma, and while convalescing from an attack, he started to write short stories and submit them to pulp magazines. Phantom Detective Magazine accepted his fourteenth submission. In his first two years as a writer, he produced 100 stories and sold o...