About Mary McMullen
Lived 1920 – 1986 (aged 65–66). Mary McMullen was an American novelist and writer.
Mary McMullen, a pseudonym for Mary Reilly (1920–1986), was an American mystery writer who studied art and worked in fashion design and advertising before becoming an author in 1951. She won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel, Strangle Hold, in 1952.
Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1920, McMullen's sister Ursula Curtiss also wrote mysteries.
McMullen died in 1986.
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Who was Mary McMullen?
American writer of detective novels
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Mary McMullen was born in 1920 in Yonkers.
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Mary McMullen died in 1986.
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Mary McMullen was a novelist and writer.
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Mary McMullen was American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Mary McMullen. https://biography.guide/mary-mcmullen/
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