7/21/1923 Charles Goodrum circulates

July 21, 1923.  Today saw the birth of Charles Goodrum.  He served as director of research at the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service, the people who pcik up the phone when a senator needs to know about the history of Haitian gambling laws, or a congressman wants to make sure that this punchy quotation he wants to use in a speech doesn't have a dubious history, like being used to defend Stalin, or something.

But then Goodrum went on to much more important tasks.  Namely, writing book-related mysteries.

7/21/1923 Charles Goodrum checks in

July 21, 1923.  Charles A. Goodrum was born on this date.  He became the Director of Research at the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service (the collection of experts that answered reference questions only for the members of Congress).  He wrote one of the first  series of mysteries with a library-background, whose titles were usually awful puns like Carnage of the Realm, The Best Cellar, and, well, see illustration.