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This newsletter will basically to discuss one of the best mystery authors of all time, John D. Voelker, who went by the pen name, Robert Travers burst onto the writing scene with his groundbreaking mystery, “The Anatomy of a Murder”, which many consider to be one of the best mystery stories ever written! This sounds like something we really need to find out more about, so let’s look at more about Robert Travers in this issue. |
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John D. Voelker (June 29, 1903 – March 18, 1991), also known by his pen name Robert Traver. He was well known as an accomplished and successful lawyer, and very much enjoyed flyfishing in his spare time since he grew up in the fly-fishing region of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. He was born and raised in Ishpeming, which is a city in the Marquette County region in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. He later attended the University of Michigan Law School. There he became an attorney and then county prosecutor in Marquette County, this town was really good to him, you see. By 1957 he was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court, and then in the golden year of 1958, he penned his masterpiece, “The Anatomy of a Murder” which was based upon, and later, the trial which occurred in Big Bay in 1952.
A quick synopsis of this book, “Anatomy of a Murder” is that this was the first book to portray both the preparation and trial phases of a legal case, creating a new genre of fiction. No one had selected nor laid out any case files in such manner in a book setting the stage for a brand-new area in mystery writing. Otto Preminger, the Hungarian-Austrian movie director, bought the rights to the movie in April of 1958 and it received much acclaim and critical success.
Voelker penned ten other works that were all based around settings that captured his love of the Upper Peninsula area and fly-fishing. His other writings were not as successful as the runaway hit, “Anatomy of a Murder” became but he did not seem to be troubled about it at all. He had a successful career as in the legal field and he dedicated much of his time to his love of fly-fishing. Anyone who knew him, knew that if he time to do a thing, it would be fly-fishing. His car was stocked with fishing poles and other supplies. He was said to have fished for 5 to 6 days a week for 20 years. It definitely was his passion!
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In the main part of the article, I mentioned a passion from author Robert Travers that might not have seemed to fit with his profession: LAW.
What did Robert Travers enjoy in his spare time?
Where did he do most of his fishing at?
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BONUS: John Voelker, aka Robert Travers, got his pen name from two special people in his life. Who were they and why did he choose his first and last name from them?
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