Desmond Shannon

Created by M.V. Heberden Pseudonyms include Charles L. Leonard (1906-65) DESMOND SHANNON is supposedly the “highest paid private eye in New York City.” He appears in a fast-paced, tough series of novels from the forties and fifties written, perhaps surprisingly for the time, by a woman: Mary Violet Heberden (although she initially kept her gender … Continue reading Desmond Shannon →