Emma Redington Thayer, widely known by her pen name Lee Thayer, was an American artist and mystery novelist. Born in Troy, Pennsylvania, on April 5, 1874, she established a creative career that successfully bridged the fine arts and popular genre fiction.
Throughout her long life, Thayer was active as both a visual artist and a writer, focusing her literary efforts on the mystery novel genre. She spent her later years in California, where she passed away in San Diego on November 18, 1973, at the age of ninety-nine.
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