Kelley Roos
Kelley Roos is the pseudonym of the American writer couple Audrey Kelley (1912–1982) and William Roos (1911–1987). You wrote numerous crime novels from the 1940s and lived in Martha's Vineyard .
Work (selection)
- 1940: Made Up To Kill
- 1941: If the Shroud Fits
- 1942: The Frightened Stiff
- 1945: There Was a Crooked Man
- 1947: Ghost of a Chance
- 1948: Murder in Any Language
- 1956: She Died Dancing
- 1958: Requiem for a Blonde
- 1959: Scent of Mystery
- 1965: Grave Danger
- 1965: Necessary Evil
- 1965: A Few Days in Madrid
- 1966: Cry in the Night
- 1966: One False Move
- 1967: Who Saw Maggie Brown?
- 1968: To Save His Life
- 1970: Suddenly One Night
- 1970: What Did Hattie See?
- 1971: Bad Trip
- 1981: Murder on Martha's Vineyard
German-language editions appeared in the 1960s in the series Midnight Books ( Verlag Kurt Desch ) and Die Schwarze Kriminalromane ( Scherz Verlag ).
Adaptations
- Movie
- 1942: A Night to Remember (with Brian Aherne and Loretta Young ) - adaptation of The Frightened Stiff
- 1943: Dangerous Blondes (with Allyn Joslyn and Evelyn Keyes ) - film adaptation of If the Shroud Fits
- 1959: Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (with Brigitte Bardot and Henri Vidal ) - Film adaptation of She Died Dancing
- 1960: Scent of Mystery (with Denholm Elliott and Peter Lorre ) - adaptation of Ghost of a Chance
- radio play
- Bayerischer Rundfunk 1973: girlfriend in all deaths (with Monika Peitsch , Harald Leipnitz and Hannelore Schroth ) - adaptation of Cry in the Night
Web links
- Literature by and about Kelley Roos in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kelley Roos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Author information from the publisher Rue Morgue Press (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audrey Kelley Roos, a Writer Of Mystery Novels and Plays. In: New York Times. December 12, 1982, accessed February 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Info at HörDat