Charlotte Armstrong

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

Life

Armstrong attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1925 . She was married to Jack Lewi, with whom she had a daughter and two sons.

Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine, she wrote over 28 novels - primarily detective 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 for an accounting firm.

Before turning to crime fiction, she tried her hand at first as a playwright. Armstrong wrote over twenty novels, many short stories, and television scripts for Alfred Hitchcock .

In 1957 she received for A Dram of Poison (dt. A sip of poison ) the Edgar Allan Poe Award (for Best Novel ). Two other of her novels ( The Gift Shop and Lemon in the Basket , 1967) were nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Three of her short stories ( And Already Lost (1957), The Case for Miss Peacock (1965) and The Splintered Monday (1966)), all of which appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , were also nominated for an Edgar Award.

Works

  • Lay on, MacDuff! (1942)
  • The Case of the Weird Sisters (1943)
  • The Innocent Flower (alternate title: Death Filled the Glass) (1945)
  • The Unsuspected (1946)
  • The Chocolate Cobweb (1948)
  • Mischief (1950), German (1968) The babysitter
  • 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: Der Albatros
  • Duo (2 novellas) (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)
  • The Protege (1970)

appeared under her pseudonym as Jo Valentine:

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

Film adaptations

literature

  • Jan Burke: The Last Word: The Mean Streets of the Suburbs, the Kindness of Strangers. A Tribute to Charlotte Armstrong. In: Clues. A Journal of Detection 25, (Summer 2007), 4, ISSN  0742-4248 , pp. 65-69.

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personal data
SURNAME Armstrong, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armstrong Lewi, Charlotte (real name); Valentine, Jo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vulcan , Michigan , USA
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 1969
Place of death Glendale , California