Aaron Marc Stein

Aaron Marc Stein (November 15, 1906 – August 29, 1985 ), known by the pen name George Bagby, was an American novelist who specialized in mystery fiction. Bagby's focus was on police investigators, especially the fictional Inspector Schmidt, Chief of Homicide for the New York Police Department. In the Schmidt novels, mystery-writer Bagby himself appears as "the Watson to Schmidt's Holmes, following him on cases, and acting as biographer." A number of his novels have been translated into other languages, including German, French, and Spanish.

Biography Stein was born on November 15, 1906, in New York City. His first mystery, Murder at the Piano, was published in 1935.

Selected list of novels The Most Wanted (1983) My Dead Body (1976) Two in the Bush (1976) Killer Boy Was Here Cop Killer Dead Storage A Dirty Way to Die Dead Drunk Dead on Arrival (1946) Scared to Death (1952) Drop Dead In Cold Blood Red Is for Killing Murder on the Nose Murder at the Piano Bachelors' Wife Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand Bird Walking Weather (published in French under the title Purée de Pois, Paris, Librairie des Champs-Élysées, Le Masque No. 410, 1952) Here Comes the Corpse (1941)