Hake Talbot is a pen name of the American writer Henning Nelms (November 30, 1900 – May 1986).
Talbot was chiefly known for his impossible crime, locked room mystery novel Rim of the Pit (1944).
[1] Nelms reserved his real name for writing non-fiction about showmanship (his chief occupation was as a stage magician).
[2] During a 1981 poll by experts arranged by Edward D. Hoch, for the preface of his anthology All But Impossible!, Talbot's Rim of the Pit stood second,[3] next only to John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man (1935) as the best locked room mystery.
I hope it is clear ... that while Talbot was influenced by Carr's approach, he in all cases showed plenty of personal creativity.