Fred Allhoff (June 11, 1904 – November 11, 1988) was an American magazine writer best known for his Liberty pieces in the 1930s and 1940s.
The corruption exposé "The Lid Off Los Angeles" (1939) is considered influential in the history of that city, another crime series was adapted into an Edward G. Robinson film, and his speculative fiction serial Lightning in the Night (1940) is considered a significant and early example of the hypothetical Axis victory in World War II subgenre.
[3] In 1930, at age 25, Fred Allhoff was employed as a newspaper reporter in Dayton[4] and/or Cleveland, Ohio.
[6] A 1936 article series for Liberty called "Tracking New York's Crime Barons" became the 1938 Edward G. Robinson picture I Am the Law.
[7] In 1939 he cowrote the six-part corruption exposé "The Lid Off Los Angeles"[8][9] and in 1940 he wrote the 13-part "What if Hitler won?"