Magua motives and plans. Later he kills Uncas. He himself is then killed by Chingachgook, the father of Uncas. Other film versions similarly alter the final outcome of the novel. Magua Magua is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the novel "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper. This historical novel is set at the time of the French and Indian War. A Huron Indian chief, he is also known by the French alias "Le Renard Subtil" ("The Wily Fox"). Magua is the enemy of Colonel Munro, the commandant of Fort William Henry, and attempts on several
S. S. Van Dine novel that incorporated one of the biggest stars in radio comedy, "The Gracie Allen Murder Case". He left behind a complete novelette-length story that was intended as a film vehicle for Sonja Henie and was published posthumously as "The Winter Murder Case". Max Perkins generously referred to Wright at the time of Wright's death as a "gallant, gentle man" who had been tormented by the pressures of a market-driven age. His portrait, painted by his brother in 1914, hangs in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. S. S. Van Dine S. S. Van Dine (also