Zenith Jones Brown, Washington - Kappa

Zenith Jones Brown, Washington - Kappa, writing under the pseudonym Leslie Ford was a nationally noted mystery writer who published more than 60 detective novels between 1929 and 1962. For more than 30 years, Zenith Jones Brown wrote detective novels that sent Baltimoreans racing to their nearest bookstore. She once modestly explained that "mystery fiction is written to entertain, not to instruct. I don't regard it as 'literature' or of lasting value." She also produced fiction for the Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping. Zenith was the wife of Ford K. Brown, an English professor at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. She wrote her first book in 1928 in England, where her husband was studying on a Guggenheim Fellowship.