Late Boston College alumnus and Professor of English John McAleer ’45 created the literary characters Henry von Stray, a London private detective, and his collaborator, Professor John Dilpate, during the 1930s—a period known as Golden Age of detective fiction. A surviving Henry von Stray story, “The Case of the Illustrious Banker,” was discovered after McAleer’s death and published for the first time in 2022. One of McAleer’s sons, Andrew McAleer, has extended the Henry von Stray stories, with three new mysteries: “The Big Push and Legend of Sir Morleans’ Lost Pearls”; “A Little Birdie Tells Von Stray”; and “Von Stray and the Five-Fingered Fraudster.” The stories by both McAleers (father and son) have been published in the first full-book collection of von Stray stories titled, A Casebook of Crime (Level Best Books, 2025). John McAleer was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for his biography of Rex Stout. An author and editor, Andrew McAleer is a 1990 Boston College alumnus who also taught at Boston College. Learn more in this blog post by Andrew McAleer.