Charlotte Armstrong

Charlotte Armstrong, Charlotte Armstrong Lewi actually ( born 2 May 1905 in Vulcan, Michigan, USA, † July 18, 1969 in Glendale, California ) was an American writer.

Life

Armstrong attended the University of Wisconsin -Madison and in 1925 received at Barnard College Bachelor of Arts. She was married to Jack Levi, with whom she had a daughter and two sons.

Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote over 28 novels - primarily mystery novels and thrillers - and also worked for the advertising department of The New York Times, as a fashion journalist for Breath of the Avenue and in an accounting firm.

In 1957 she received for A Dram of Poison ( ger A sip of poison) the Edgar Allan Poe Award ( Best Novel category ). Two more of her novels ( The Gift Shop and Lemon in the Basket, 1967) were nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Also three of her short stories (And Already Lost ( 1957), The Case for Miss Peacock ( 1965) and The Splintered Monday (1966 )), which were all published in Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine, have been nominated for the Edgar Award.

Works

  • Lay on, MacDuff! (1942 )
  • The Case of the Weird Sisters ( 1943)
  • The Innocent Flower ( alternative title: Death Filled the Glass ) ( 1945)
  • The Unsuspected (1946 )
  • The Chocolate Cobweb (1948 )
  • Mischief (1950 )
  • The Black-Eyed Stranger (1951 )
  • Catch -As- Catch- Can ( also published as: Walk Out on Death ) ( 1952)
  • The Better to Eat You ( also published as: Murder 's Nest ) ( 1954)
  • The Dream Walker ( also published as: Alibi for Murder ) ( 1955)
  • A Dram of Poison ( Edgar Award) (1956 )
  • The Albatross ( short stories ) ( 1957), German: The Albatross
  • Duo ( 2 stories ) ( 1959)
  • The Seventeen Widows of San Souci (1959 )
  • Something Blue (1962 )
  • Then Came Two Women (1962 )
  • A Little Less Than Kind (1963 )
  • The Mark of the Hand ( 1963)
  • The One -Faced Girl ( 1963)
  • Who's Been Sitting in My Chair? (1963)
  • The Witch 's House (1963 )
  • The Turret Room (1965 )
  • Dream of Fair Woman ( 1966)
  • I See You (Short Stories ) ( 1966)
  • The Gift Shop ( 1967)
  • Lemon in the Basket (1967 )
  • The Balloon Man ( 1968)
  • Seven Seats to the Moon (1969 )

Under her pseudonym as Jo Valentine appeared:

  • The Trouble in Thor (also published as: And Sometimes Death )

Films

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