Hal Glatzer
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Hal Glatzer

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Although THE NEST is set in recent times, most of Hal Glatzer’s mystery fiction has been set in the past. Katy Green is a working musician in the years leading up to World War II, whose gigs draw her into danger. In TOO DEAD TO SWING she joins an all-female Swing band on tour, only to discover that someone is killing her bandmates. In A FUGUE IN HELL'S KITCHEN, Katy helps a friend in a classical-music conservatory who’s accused of stealing a rare manuscript. And in THE LAST FULL MEASURE, Katy’s in a shipboard dance band, en route to Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor. TOO DEAD TO SWING and A FUGUE IN HELL'S KITCHEN are also available as audiobooks. In audio exclusively are VENGEANCE IN VEGAS and A DEAD BODY'S A DEAL-BREAKER, Glatzer’s humorously hardboiled minuscule mysteries: the all-alliterative adventures of the Hollywood hawkshaw Mark Markheim, a shamus with a shingle in Tinseltown. Glatzer is active in several Sherlock Holmes “scion societies” of enthusiasts. During the pandemic, he wrote five Sherlock Holmes pastiches in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, all of which were published in U.K. anthologies. He subsequently published them together in the anthology, THE SIGN OF FIVE. Born and raised in Manhattan, Glatzer went to public schools, the Bronx High School of Science, Syracuse University for a BA in English, and the University of Hawaii for an MA in Communication. But his writing career began in daily journalism. As a newspaper and television reporter in the 1970s, he found his ideal beat covering the “silicon revolution,” the rise of communication satellites, small computers and other personal electronic devices. He wrote four nonfiction books on those subjects which were published in the ’80s, and stayed on the high-tech beat until the mid-’90s, when—ironically—the internet killed the market for “computer magazines.” But he got his first mystery novel out of that beat. THE TRAPDOOR, about a hacker who gets in trouble hacking for organized crime, was published in 1986. He had long wondered why so many cities used to—but no longer—have streetcars. So he spent years doing research, and created an illustrated bildungsroman called DEAD IN HIS TRACKS to answer that question. When Glatzer is not working as an author, he works as a musician, playing jazz guitar and singing “the Great American Songbook” from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway.
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