Gunard Hjertstedt (March 28, 1904 – January 9, 1969), better known by pen name Day Keene, was an American novelist, short story writer and radio and television scriptwriter. Keene wrote over 50 novels and was the head writer for radio soap operas Little Orphan Annie and Kitty Keene, Inc. Several of his novels were adapted into movies, including Joy House (MGM, 1964) and Chautauqua, released as The Trouble with Girls (MGM, 1969).
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Novels
+ genre title year publisher comment MY Framed in Guilt 1949 MY Evidence Most Blind - reissue of Framed in Guilt MY Farewell to Passion 1951 MY The Passion Murders - reissue of Farewell to Passion MY My Flesh Is Sweet 1951 MY Love Me and Die 1951 MY To Kiss or Kill 1951 MY Hunt the Killer 1952 MY About Doctor Ferrel 1952 MY Home Is the Sailor 1952 MY If the Coffin Fits 1952 MY Naked Fury 1952 MY Wake Up to Murder 1952 MY Mrs. Homicide 1953 MY Strange Witness 1953 MY The Big Kiss-Off 1954 MY There Was A Crooked Man 1954 MY Death House Doll 1954 MY His Father's Wife 1954 MY Homicidal Lady 1954 MY Joy House 1954 MY Notorious 1954 MY Sleep with the Devil 1954 MY Who Has Wilma Lathrop? 1955 MY The Dangling Carrot 1955 Ace Books MY Flight By Night - Ace Books MY Murder on the Side 1956 MY Bring Him Back Dead 1956 MY It's a Sin to Kill 1958 MY Passage to Samoa 1958 MY Dead Dolls Don't Talk 1959 MY Dead in Bed 1959 MY Moran's Woman 1959 MY So Dead My Lovely 1959 MY Take a Step to Murder 1959 MY Too Black for Heaven 1959 MY Too Hot to Hold 1959 MY The Brimstone Bed 1960 MY Chautauqua 1960 MY Payola 1960 MY World Without Women 1960 with Leonard Pruyn MY Seed of Doubt 1961 MY Bye, Baby Bunting 1963 MY LA 46 1964 MY Carnival of Death 1965 MY Miami 59 1965 MY Chicago 11 1966 MY Acapulco Gpo 1967 MY Guns Along the Brazos 1967 MY Southern Daughter 1967 MY Live Again, Love Again 1970 MY Wild Girl 1970
Collections
This is Murder, Mr. Herbert, and Other Stories, 1948 League of the Grateful Dead and Other Stories, 2010Kevin Burton Smith, "Day Keene," The Thrilling Detective Website, retrieved February 5, 2018.
References
External links "Becoming Day Keene: The Pre-Pulp Career of Gunard Hjertstedt" by Cullen Gallagher, at the Los Angeles Review of Books