Mary McMullen

Mary McMullen
Born1920
Yonkers, New York
Died1986(1986-00-00) (aged 65–66)
Other namesMary Reilly
OccupationMystery writer
SpouseAlton Wilson
Parent(s)Paul Reilly and Helen Reilly
RelativesUrsula Curtiss (sister)
James Michael Kieran (grandfather)
John Kieran (uncle)
AwardsEdgar Award for best first novel, 1952

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.[1]

Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1920,[1] McMullen was the daughter of Paul Reilly, an artist, and Helen Reilly, a mystery writer who published under the pseudonym Kieran Abbey as well as her own name.[2] McMullen's sister Ursula Curtiss also wrote mysteries.[3]

McMullen died in 1986.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Mary Reilly". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2002. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  2. ^ Bakerman, Jane S. (1980). "Reilly, Helen". In John M. Reilly (ed.). Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers. Macmillan. pp. 1251–54.
  3. ^ Bakerman, Jane S. (1980). "McMullen, Mary". In John M. Reilly (ed.). Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers. Macmillan. pp. 1059–60.
  4. ^ Eccles, Marjorie. "Mary McMullen (1920–1986)". Mystery People. Retrieved August 8, 2019.