Herbert Brean

Herbert Brean was an American journalist and crime fiction writer, best known for his recurring series characters William Deacon and Reynold Frame. He was a director and former executive vice president of the Mystery Writers of America, a group for which he also taught a class in mystery writing. Aside from his seven mystery crime novels, he also published non-fiction books and articles, and mystery magazine short stories. Alfred Hitchcock used "A Case of Identity", one of Brean's many articles for Life, as the basis for Hitchcock's film The [Wrong Man].
As a lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan, Brean was a member of The [Baker Street Irregulars], and as such he wrote the introduction to at least one Holmes edition.