The Girl with Six Fingers

John Jericho Mystery #5

by Hugh Pentecost

301 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Hugh Pentecost was a penname of mystery author Judson Philips. 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 manager who first appeared in The Cannibal Who Overate (1962), and the one-legged investigative reporter Peter Styles, introduced in Laughter Trap (1964). Although he spent his last years with failing vision and poor health, Philips continued writing daily. His final novel was the posthumously published Pattern for Terror (1989).

Reviews

[Donald Harwick · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very fast read and very entertaining. The plot was very twisting. The hero, Jerico, was different than the other two hero's I have read of Mr. Pentecost's. It reminded me of many things of my youth I had forgotten.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this book up about 15 years ago from a free box at a library is Kalamazoo. Can't believe I just got around to reading it. A pretty good read!