Elizabeth Linington

Barbara Elizabeth Linington (born March 11, 1921 in Aurora Kane , Illinois , † April 5, 1988 in Arroyo Grande , California ) was an American crime writer .

Life

Elizabeth Linington was a prolific writer who published most of her novels under a pseudonym ; B. under the name Dell Shannon . She chose a man's name because, with her stories about "Lieutenant Luis Mendoza" from the Los Angeles Police Department, she was one of the first women to enter the male-dominated genre of the police novel. As Lesley Egan , she also wrote two other larger series about the suburban police officer "Vic Varallo" and the lawyer "Jesse Falkenstein".

Honors

Shannon thrillers were nominated twice for the Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) : Case Pending (1961) as best first novel and Knave of Hearts (1963) as best novel of the year. The series includes 37 crime novels. Nightmare , published under the name Anne Blaisdell , was also nominated in 1962 in the Best Novel category.

Works (selection)

Under her own name

• Commitment to Maddox. Detective novel ("Something Wrong"). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1975, ISBN 3-499-42271-9 .
• Inferno Los Angeles. Detective novel ("Crime File"). Goldmann, Munich 1974.
• No cat without claws. Detective novel ("Crime by Chance"). Goldmann, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-442-25952-5 .
• Murder with Variations. Detective novel ("Greenmask!"). Goldmann, Munich 1964.
• Four killers for Maddox. Detective novel ("Policeman's Lot"). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973, ISBN 3-499-42278-6 .

Under the pseudonym Anne Blaisdell

• Written in blood. Detective novel ("Nightmare"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.

Under the pseudonym Dell Shannon

• All bad for Christmas. Detective novel ("No Holiday for Crime"). Goldmann, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-442-04419-7 .
• On a Monday in March. Detective novel ("Spring of Violence"). Goldmann, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-442-25963-0 .
• The picture in the newspaper. Detective novel ("Double Bluff"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
• The ladies party. Detective novel ("Death of a Busybody"). Goldmann, Munich 1963.
• The bottle of Madeira. Detective novel ("Root of All Evil"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
• Dangerous cocktails. Detective novel ("Rain With Violence"). Goldmann, Munich 1968.
• The golden blonde doll. Detective novel ("Case Pending"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.
• Hello Homicide. Detective novel ("Coffin Corner"). Goldmann, Munich 1966.
• Hot rain . Cora-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
• Hot money. Detective novel ("The Death-Bringers"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
• One bullet is missing. Detective novel ("Crime on Their Hands"). Goldmann, Munich 1970.
• Lieutenant Mendoza's new case. Detective novel ("Death by Inches"). Goldmann, Munich 1966.
• Morphine in sugar. Detective novel ("Mark of Murder"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
• A nice young man. Detective novel ("Knave of Hearts"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.
• Nymphs and dolphins. Detective novel ("The Ace of Spades"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.
• Without regard to losses. Detective novel ("Unexpected Death"). Goldmann, Munich 1970.
• Poker with joker. Detective novel ("Deuces Wild"). Goldmann, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-442-04488-X .
• The Road to Retribution. Detective novel ("With a Vengeance"). Goldmann, Munich 1970.
• The table is wrong. Detective novel ("Extra Kill"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.

Under the pseudonym Lesley Egan

• One accounts. Detective novel ("Some Avenger, Rise!"). Goldmann, Munich 1966.
• One dies for Danny. Detective novel ("The Wine of Violence"). Goldmann, Munich 1970.
• A case of appeal. Detective novel ("A Case of Appeal"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.
• The wrong man for me. Detective novel ("My Name Is Death"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
• Jesse Falkenstein cycle
  • Dead man, good man. Detective novel ("In the Death of Man"). Goldmann, Munich 1970.
  • Miss Sherlock Holmes. Detective novel ("The Paper Chase"). Goldmann, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-442-04417-0 .
• The killer has an alibi. Detective novel ("The Nameless Ones"). Goldmann, Munich 1968.
• Murder from the beyond. Detective novel ("A Serious Investigation"). Goldmann, Munich 1970.
• Paul Brandon's diary. Detective novel ("Run to Evil"). Goldmann, Munich 1964.
• From the rain in the eaves. Detective novel ("The Borrowed Alibi"). Goldmann, Munich 1963.
• The white handbag. Detective novel ("Against the Evidence"). Goldmann, Munich 1963.

Film adaptations

• Silvio Narizzano (director): The gloomy house . 1964 (based on her novel With Blood ).

literature

• Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 229.

Web links

• Dell Shannon (Eng.)
• Literature by and about Elizabeth Linington in the catalog of the German National Library