Charles Franklin (writer)

Charles Franklin, the pen-name of Frank Hugh Usher (22 October 1909 – 1976) was an English writer of mystery novels and spy novels. He also wrote under the pen-names Frank Usher, and Frank Lester. Quotes Each night he went out to find a victim for the sadistic love-making which was the only sort which gave him true pleasure. He found many girls who enjoyed being half strangled during intercourse, and a number of them came back for more. "Dusseldorf's Reign of Terror", in John Canning, ed., 50 True Tales of Terror (New York: Bell Publishing Co., 1972), p. 335 At the age of sixteen he was living with a whore who was a masochist and who encouraged him to ill-treat her. She liked to be beaten and half-choked during intercourse. Kurten’s inborn sadism of course burst into vigorous flower in such a hotbed, if one may use the term, of eroticism. The woman’s sixteen-year-old daughter also lived in this curious establishment. "Peter Kurten", in The World's Worst Murderers: Exciting and Authentic Accounts of the Great Classics of Murderer (London: Odhams Books, 1965), p. 27 External links Category:1909 births Category:1976 deaths Category:Novelists from England