Darwin LeOra Teilhet was an American mystery novelist, advertising executive, journalist and a movie screenwriter and consultant.

Teilhet was born in Wyanet, Illinois

Wyanet, Illinois

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. As a teenager, he traveled in France and worked as a juggler in a circus there. Teilhet was as an intelligence officer in the United Kingdom and the US during World War II. He became executive assistant to the President of Dole Pineapple in Hawaii.

Teilhet taught journalism classes at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, and worked as a screenwriter and consultant for various film producers.

Teilhet created his main detetecitve protagonist, Baron von Kaz, a Viennesse, at the instigation of James Poling of Doubleday Books. He wrote some of his mystery novels with his wife, Hildegarde Tolman Tielhet (November 22, 1905 – January 24, 1999). Novels were published by Darwin Tielhet, Darwin L. Teilhet, Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet or his pseudonym

Pseudonym

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s, Cyrus Fisher (juvenile fiction), William H Fielding and Theo Durant. Teilhet was a Newbery Honor award winner for his Cyrus Fisher novel, "The Avion My Uncle Flew

The Avion My Uncle Flew

The Avion My Uncle Flew is a children's novel by Cyrus Fisher, a pseudonym of Darwin Teilhet. The plot concerns an American boy who uncovers a mystery while visiting his uncle in post-war France. The novel was first published in 1946 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1947....

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Teilhet choose the pseudonym "Cyrus Fisher" as a tribute to his late father-in-law, Cyrus Fisher Tolman (1873–1942), Professor Emeritus of Economic Geology at Stanford University. There is a "Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in the School of Earth Sciences" professorship named in his honor, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.

Teilhet died in Palo Alto, California. He and his wife are buried together in Golden Gate National Cemetery

Golden Gate National Cemetery

Golden Gate National Cemetery is a U.S. National Cemetery, located in the city of San Bruno, San Mateo County, 12 miles south of San Francisco. Because of the name and location, it is frequently confused with San Francisco National Cemetery, which dates to the 19th century and is in the Presidio...

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Novels

• Death Flies High (1931)
• Murder in the Air (1931)
• The Talking Sparrow Murders (1934)
• Bright Destination (1935)
• The Ticking Terror Murders (1935)
• The Crimson Hair Murders (1936) with Hildegarde Teilhet
• The Feather Cloak Murders (1936) with Hildegarde Teilhet
• Journey to the West (1938)
• The Broken Face Murders (1940) with Hildegarde Teilhet
• Trouble Is My Master (1942)
• Retreat From the Dolphin (1943)
• Odd Man Pays (1944)
• My True Love (1945)
• The Fear Makers (1945)
• The Avion My Uncle Flew
  The Avion My Uncle Flew
  The Avion My Uncle Flew is a children's novel by Cyrus Fisher, a pseudonym of Darwin Teilhet. The plot concerns an American boy who uncovers a mystery while visiting his uncle in post-war France. The novel was first published in 1946 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1947....
  
  (1946) as Cyrus Fisher
• Something Wonderful to Happen (1947)
• Ab Carmody's Treasure (1948) as Cyrus Fisher
• The Happy Island (1950)
• The Mission of Jeffery Tolamy (1951)
• The Unpossessed (1951) as William H Fielding
• Steamboat on the River (1952)
• Take Me As I Am (1952) as William H Fielding
• Beautiful Humbug (1954) as William H Fielding
• The Lion's Skin (1955)
• The Road to Glory (1956)
• The Big Runaround (1964) aka Dangerous Encounter

Selected filmography (writer)

• They Wanted to Marry (1937), from a short story
• No Room for the Groom (1952), from his novel, "My True Love"
• The Fearmakers (1958), from his novel, "The Fear Makers"

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