Hilda Van Siller

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Hilda Van Siller (* 1911 in New York ; † 1982 ibid) was an American writer.

Live and act

She was the daughter of the engineer FT Van Siller, whom she often accompanied on his assignments abroad to Venezuela, but also to some other countries in South America, since childhood. She completed her school days in New York.

In 1941 she and her sister bought a farm in Virginia, where she found the muse to write her first detective novel - Echo of a bomb - for the next two years . Her editor at Doubleday advised her to use a "male" pseudonym and so she made her debut successfully under Van Siller .

Hilda Van Siller died in New York at the age of 70 and found her final resting place there.

Works (selection)

Richard Massey cycle
  • Echo of a bomb . 1943.
  • The curtain between . 1947.
  • Fatal bride . 1947.
Allan Stewart series
  • A complete stranger . 1965.
  • The mood for murder . 1966.
  • The Biltmore Call . 1967.
Individual novels
  • One alone 1946.
  • Paul's apartment . 1948.
  • Pammy . 1974.
  • The old friend .
  • The Bermuda Murder . 1956.
  • Murder is my business . 1958.
    • German: Murder is my business . Mohn, Gütersloh 1961.
  • The lonely breeze or The Murder at Hibiscus Key . 1965.
  • The Red Geranium . 1966.
    • German: Casanova sleeps next door . Heyne, Munich 1969.
  • Sudden storm . 1968.
  • The watchers . 1969.
  • It had to be you . 1970.
  • The old friend or deception of death . 1973.
  • The hell with Elaine . 1974.
  • The sloane divorce .

literature

  • Jacques Badou, Jean-Jacques Schleret: Les métamorphoses de la chouette. Detective club . Futuropolis, Paris 1986, ISBN 978-2-737-65488-6 , p. 440.

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personal data
SURNAME Van Siller, Hilda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 1982
Place of death New York City