The creator of Jeeves and Wooster was a mystery fan, according to Michael Dirda:
Wodehouse aimed to be an entertainer, bowed to editorial judgment as meekly as any novice, and himself admired pros of prose like Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Henry Slessar (who wrote his beloved Edge of Night soap opera).—Bound to Please (New York: Norton, 2005) 218.
I'm sure Dirda actually meant the late sci-fi and mystery writer Henry Slesar; Slesar's
Murder at Heartbreak Hospital is in print with Academy Chicago Publishers.
The creator of Jeeves and Wooster was a mystery fan, according to Michael Dirda:
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Slesar was the head writer for Edge of Night.
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