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Durkin, Dan. Dan Durkin was created by Arthur M. Chase (Matilda Townsend) and appeared in The Party at the Penthouse (1932), Murder of a Missing Man (1934), and Twenty Minutes Left to Kill (1938).

Dan Durkin is a New York City private detective of Irish extraction. He’s a good actor–he is sometimes invited to impersonate other people so as to lay a trap for potential murderers--and is quiet, self-possessed, and forceful when necessary.

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