Masur served a term as MWA president and (IIRC) was MWA's
general counsel into the 1980s. Back when I attended the MWA
annual dinners, I remember him as a dapper dresser and a
witty speaker. I remember one story he told at either an MWA
affair or perhaps it was at the New York Bouchercon in the
early 1980s. He said in one of his first novels his primary
character Scott Jordan smoked Camel cigarettes. One day he
received a thank you letter from R.J. Reynolds along with two
free cartons of Camels. In his next book, he had Jordan drive
a Cadillac. He sent a copy to General Motors but no free car
resulted.
I liked the Scott Jordan novels and Masur was also effective
at shorter lengths. He had several stories in Manhunt, the
leading hardboiled digest of the 1950s. Pyramid published a
collection THE NAME IS JORDAN in 1962.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "foxbrick"
<foxbrick@y...> wrote:
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Ed Lynskey
<e_lynskey@y...>
wrote:
> >
> > Jiro Kimura emailed me re: the death of Harold
Q. Masur.
> > Apologies if this was already posted. Mr. Masur
obit appears in
> > a database Jiro uses:
> >
> > South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale,
FL) - September 17,
> > 2005
> >
-----------------------------------------------------------------
> Deceased
> > Name: Masur, Harold Q.
> >
> > Masur Masur, Harold Q., 96, of Boca Raton, FL
died on September
> > 16, 2005. Neptune Society Cremation
Chapel.
>
> I liked his fiction I read, and I loved the ALFRED
HITCHCOCK
PRESENTS:
> anthologies he edited, mostly the 1970s volumes.
Thanks for
letting us
> know.
>
> Todd Mason
>
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