Writer Frances Crane , above , who reportedly thumbed her nose at a speech broadcasted over a loudspeaker by Adolf Hitler while she was living in Germany in the late 1930s . Her acts of defiance in Germany included going into a café which said no Jews were allowed entry and , stating she was Jewish ( which she was not ) , demanding service . She was expelled after her Jewish housekeeper and son were arrested for supposed crimes against the state . In the New Yorker magazine she fiercely denounced the Nazi regime. Recently divorced , realising that her gentle satires about the English way of life were going out of fashion during the war, she began writing detective stories in which Pat Abbott and his smart and intelligent wife Jean crack cases .
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One of her Pat Abbott mysteries which was first published in 1953 by Random House surfaced recently during a sweep of North Queensland outposts in the hunt for items of interest . Boning up on the author , one wonders what her attitude would have been to US President Donald Trump if she were alive today...a Bronx cheer similar to the one she gave Hitler ? Still the massive rallies by women in the US against the (M)adman of Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes.
Her daughter , Nancy , a sculptor and writer, married pulp fiction writer Norbert Davis who gassed himself in his car after being diagnosed as suffering from cancer. In 1949 Nancy was involved in a near fatal accident in the same car which left her facially mutilated .
