 Kendell Foster Crossen was born in Albany, Ohio. He was an amateur boxer and worked at several jobs. He is the creator of 'Milo March', a New York insurance investigator (under the pseudonym 'M.E. Chaber'). He also wrote under the pseudonyms 'Bennett Barlay', 'M.E. Chaber', 'Richard Foster', 'Christopher Monig' and 'Clay Richards'. Crossen was married four times and had four children. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) The Case of the Curious Heel (as Ken Crossen) | 1944 |
| 2) The Case of the Phantom Fingerprints (as Ken Crossen) | 1945 |
| 3) Murder Out of Mind (as Ken Crossen) | 1945 |
| 4) The Tortured Path | 1957 |
| 5) The Big Dive | 1959 |
| As 'Bennet Barlay' | |
| 1) Satan Comes Across | 1945 |
| As 'M.E. Chaber' | |
| 1) Hangman’s Harvest (Also published as: Don't Get Caught [1953]) | 1952 |
| 2) No Grave for March (Also published as: All the Way Down [1953]) | 1953 |
| 3) As Old As Cain (Also published as: Take One for Murder [1955]) | 1954 |
| 4) The Man Inside (Also published as: Now It's My Turn [1954]) | 1954 |
| 5) The Splintered Man | 1955 |
| 6) A Lonely Walk | 1956 |
| 7) The Gallows Garden (Also published as: The Lady Came to Kill [1959]) | 1958 |
| 8) A Hearse of Another Color | 1958 |
| 9) So Dead the Rose | 1959 |
| 10) Jade for a Lady | 1962 |
| 11) Softly in the Night | 1963 |
| 12) Six Who Ran | 1964 |
| 13) Uneasy Lies the Dead | 1964 |
| 14) Wanted: Dead Men | 1965 |
| 15) The Day It Rained Diamonds | 1966 |
| 16) A Man in the Middle | 1967 |
| 17) Wild Midnight Falls | 1968 |
| 18) The Flaming Man | 1969 |
| 19) Green Grow the Graves | 1970 |
| 20) The Bonded Dead | 1971 |
| 21) Born to Be Hanged | 1973 |
| As 'Richard Foster' | |
| 1) The Laughing Buddha Murders | 1944 |
| 2) The Invisible Man Murders | 1945 |
| 3) The Girl from Easy Street | 1952 |
| 4) Blonde and Beautiful | 1955 |
| 5) Bier for a Chaser | 1959 |
| 6) The Rest Must Die | 1959 |
| 7) Too Late for Mourning | 1960 |
| As 'Christopher Monig' | |
| 1) The Burned Man (Also published as: Don't Count the Corpses [1958]) | 1956 |
| 2) Abra-Cadaver | 1958 |
| 3) Once Upon a Crime | 1959 |
| 4) The Lonely Graves | 1960 |
| As 'Clay Richards' | |
| 1) The Marble Jungle | 1961 |
| 2) Death of an Angel | 1963 |
| 3) The Gentle Assassin | 1964 |
| 4) Who Steals My Name | 1964 |