George Edward Stanley (1942–2011)
Author of The Clue of the Left Handed Envelope
About the Author
George Edward Stanley was born in Memphis, Texas on July 15, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's degree in 1967 from Texas Tech University. He earned his Doctor Litterarum in African Linguistics in 1974 from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He lived all show more over Europe and Africa, studying and teaching foreign languages, working for the U.S. government, and writing books for young people and adults. He started writing fiction while a Fulbright professor in Chad, Central Africa, where about the only diversion he found available was listening to the BBC on his short wave radio. That led to his writing radio plays for a program called World Service Short Story. Three of his plays were eventually produced. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines and linguistics articles in major international journals, he started writing books. He wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for young people including The Katie Lynn Cookie Company series and the Adam Sharp series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of M. T. Coffin, Franklin W. Dixon, Laura Lee Hope, Carolyn Keene, Adam Mills, and Stuart Symons. He was a professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages and linguistics in the department of foreign languages at Cameron University. He died from a ruptured aneurysm on February 7, 2011 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
George Edward Stanley wrote the Hawkeye Collins & Amy Adams series as M. Masters. He also wrote many of the Spinetinglers books under the M. T. Coffin pseudonym.
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Works by George Edward Stanley
The Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope [and] The Puzzle of the Pretty Pink Handkerchief (2004) 588 copies, 2 reviews
Third Grade Detectives 06 Secret of The 13 copies
The Third-Grade Detectives Mind-Boggling Collection: The Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope; The Cobweb Confession; The… (2016) 8 copies
The Case of the Bank-Robbing Bandit — Author — 4 copies
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- Other names
- Masters, M. (pseudonym)
Coffin, M. T. - Birthdate
- 1942-07-15
- Date of death
- 2011-02-07
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Memphis, Hall County, Texas, USA
- Place of death
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Cause of death
- ruptured aneurysm
- Places of residence
- Memphis, Texas, USA
Chad (Africa)
South Africa
Lawton, Oklahoma, USA - Education
- Texas Tech University (BA|1965)
Texas Tech University (MA|1967)
University of Port Elizabeth (DLitt|1974) - Occupations
- professor (African and Middle-Eastern Languages and Linguistics)
children's book author - Disambiguation notice
- George Edward Stanley wrote the Hawkeye Collins & Amy Adams series as M. Masters. He also wrote many of the Spinetinglers books under the M. T. Coffin pseudonym.
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The Secret of the Wooden Witness (Ready-for-Chapters) by George E. Stanley
Detective
It's 1922, and thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper has moved with his widowed mother to his father's hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. Perhaps here he will be able to find the closeness to his father that eluded him when his father was alive. He is befriended by his new next-door neighbor, a powerful state senator who becomes the father figure Woodrow always wanted, who understands him in a way his own father never did. The senator introduces Woodrow to the "best" people in town, but Woodrow soon realizes the "best" people have some terrible secrets, and to be accepted by them he has to do things that make him abandon his own values, culminating in a terrifying act of violence close to home.… (more)
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