Benjamin Appel

Benjamin Appel, or Benjamin Apple (September 13, 1907, New York City - April 1977), was an American writer (novelist). He was one of the writers of the period specializing in detective and crime fiction, sometimes from a radical perspective.

Appel grew up in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City. It was this experience that he drew upon when writing his novels.^[1]

Before he began earning a living from his writing, he was a bank clerk, farmer, lumberjack, factory-hand and a housing inspector for New York City.

Works

• Brain Guy, aka The Enforcer (1934)
• Four Roads to Death, aka Gold and Flesh (1935)
• Runaround (1937)
• The Power-House (1939)
• The Dark Stain (1943)
• But Not Yet Slain (1947)
• Plunder (1952)
• Dock Walloper (1953)
• Life and Death of a Tough Guy, aka Teen-Age Mobster (1955)
• Hell's Kitchen, aka Alley Kids (1956)
• Jacob Steele - One Man, One Mission (1957)
• The Raw Edge (1958)
• The Funhouse, aka The Death Master (1959)
• Big Man, A Fast Man (1961)
• A Time of Fortune (1963)
• Brain Guy / Plunder (2005)

References

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