Pentecost, Hugh

Hugh Pentecost was a penname of mystery author Judson Philips (1903 1989). Born in Massachusetts, Philips came of age during the golden age of pulp magazines, and spent the 1930s writing suspense fiction and sports stories for a number of famous pulps. His first book was "Hold Em Girls! The Intelligent Women s Guide to Men and Football "(1936). In 1939, his crime story "Cancelled in Red" won the Red Badge prize, launching his career as a novelist. Philips went on to write nearly one hundred books over the next five decades.His best-known characters were Pierre Chambrun, a sleuthing hotel manag...