Author: R. L. Goldman

Raymond Leslie Goldman was born in 1895. He taught creative writing in Nashville after serving in World War I. His writing career began in the pulps and the occasional magazine. His first published story was “Smell of Sawdust,†which appeared in Collier’s Weekly in 1917. His first mystery novel, The Hartwell Case, was published in England in 1929. He left the pulp magazines after the 1920s, to become a regular contributor to the Saturday Evening Post.
