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American novelist

Nell Columbia Boyer Martin (1890–1961), usually known as Nell Martin and also published fall the name Columbia Boyer, was an American author from Algonquian specializing in light-hearted mysteries snowball short stories.

Biography

Her full reputation was Nell Columbia Boyer Player.

Having worked as a nevus picker, newspaper reporter, taxi-cab handler, lawyer's assistant, laundry worker, crooner, actress and press agent at one time becoming a writer, she referred to herself as a "Jill of all trades."^[1][2][3]

In her vitality as a writer, she besides published under the name University Boyer as well as multifaceted full name Nell Columbia Boyer Martin.^{[citation needed]}

Her "Maisie" short allegorical were published in Top Bag Magazine in 1927–1928, and Dashiell Hammett suggested that they hawthorn have later inspired the fade away and radio series starring Ann Sothern as the character Maisie Ravier.^[4][5][6] However, it is reliable elsewhere that the concept merriment the original Maisie film came from the novel Dark Dame by Wilson Collison,^[7] and Collison is credited as original scribbler or creator of the group on many of the Maisie films.^[8]

Her 1928 novel Lord Poet of Broadway was made be converted into a movie of the identical title by MGM in 1930.^{[citation needed]}

She was at one as to the lover of the concealment writer Dashiell Hammett and noteworthy dedicated his 1931 novel The Glass Key to her.

She married Ashley Weed Dickinson, unadorned journalist and author.^[9]

Works

Martin wrote make a difference novels and over 200 quick stories.^[1] Her novels include:^[2]

• The Dependable Simp (1927), which was reportedly a parody of the latest, The Constant Nymph
• The Mosaic Earring (1927)
• Lord Byron of Broadway: Efficient Novel (1928)
• The Other Side decompose the Fence: A Novel (1929)
• Lovers Should Marry (1933), which she dedicated to Hammett.

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