James Atlee Phillips

1915 – 26 May 1991

James Atlee Phillips was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to a wealthy family which later fell on hard times. He attended Texas University, Texas Christian University, and the University of Missouri. He began his writing career writing stories for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Story. His first novel, The Outsiders, an exposé about the Dallas country club set, was published in the mid-1930s. He worked as a publicist in New York and wrote a detective novel in 1939. Among his early novels were The Shivering Chorus Girl (1942) and Suitable for Framing (1949). After Pea

• The kiwi contract
• The Silken Baroness Contract
• The Spice Route Contract
• Joe Gall
• Pagoda
• The case of the shivering chorus girls
• The Deadly Mermaid
• The Fer-de-Lance Contract
• The Green Wound Contract
• The ill wind contract
• The Irish Beauty Contract
• The Judah Lion Contract