Author: Clinton H. Stagg
Alternate names: Clinton Holland Stagg
Born: Nov 1890
Died: 3 May 1916
Bio: Clinton Holland Stagg was an American screenwriter, journalist, and author. Stagg created the fictional sleuth Thornley Colton, known as Problemist, the genre's first blind detective living in New York City in the early 20th century. The independently wealthy Colton relies on his intelligence and superb senses, honed due to his blindness, and takes only the most difficult cases for the sheer pleasure of solving mysteries, often clashing with the NYPD along the way. [Wikipedia]