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Magimple, Murray. Murray Magimple was created by Milo Ray Phelps (Fluffy McGoff) and appeared in seven stories in Detective Fiction Weekly from 1935 to 1937, beginning with “Meet Murray Magimple” (Detective Fiction Weekly, July 6, 1935).

Murray Magimple is a grouchy, cigar-smoking N.Y.P.D. detective who aspires to be more than just a detective. He cavils at the “dinky little department” he works at, and wants everything to be “high-class and scientific.”

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