 Sale started his career writing as a freelance writer for pulps in the Thirties, appearing regularly in "Detective Fiction Weekly" (with the Daffy Dill series ), "Argosy", "Double Detective", and a number of other magazines.In the Forties, he graduated to slick publications like "The Country Gentleman" and "The Saturday Evening Post".In the mid-Forties to mid-Fifties, he made a career change from writing magazine fiction to screenplays.