Author:Octavus Roy Cohen

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Octavus Roy Cohen (1891–1959)

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American author who became popular as a result of his stories printed in The Saturday Evening Post which concerned themselves with African-Americans. His works include humorous and detective novels, plays, and collections of short stories; Broadway plays and radio, film, and television scripts.

Works

• Love Can Be Dangerous (1915) IA
• The Other Woman (1917) IA
• Polished Ebony (1919) IA
• Come Seven (1920) IA
• Highly Colored (1921)
• Assorted Chocolates (1922)
• Jim Hanvey, Detective (1923) short stories
• Scarlet Woman (1923?)
• Shadow Light (1924) (external scan)

David Carroll books

• The Crimson Alibi (1919) hathi
• Gray Dusk (1920) IA
• Six Seconds of Darkness (1918) IA
• Midnight (Cohen) (1922) IA : PG : librivox

Works from periodicals

• "The Man of Ice," Munsey's Magazine, Aug 1915, (with Manning J. Rubin)
• "Thoroughly Feminine" Snappy Stories, 1916 Mar (ss)
• "Three's a Crowd" Green Book Magazine July 1916
• "Fame and Fortune" Green Book Magazine Aug 1916
• "To Escape" Adventure magazine, Oct 1916
• "The Mixed Quartette," Black Cat, Feb 1917
• "The Crack of the Whip" All-Story Weekly Mar 24 1917
• "One Damsel in Distress" All-Story Weekly, 1917 Apr (nvt)
• "Thirty-five Twenty-sevenths," Black Cat, May 1917
• "The Professional Affinity" (1917, Blue Book) (ss)
• "The Baboon's Sister" All-Story Weekly Jun 21, 1919
• "Follow Through," Munsey's Magazine, Mar 1921
• "Oft in the Silly Night" (1921, Saturday Evening Post) (nvt) (included in Assorted Chocolates)
• "Bird of Pray" (1921, Saturday Evening Post) (nvt) (included in Assorted Chocolates)
• "The Bent Twig" Everybody's, 1922 Sept (ss)
• "The Question Mark" Collier's Weekly, Feb 23 1924
• "Interlude " (1924 Nov, Everybody's) (nvt)
• "The Last White Line" (1925 Nov, Everybody's) (ss)