Mystery Women Authors
Charlotte Armstrong
Biography
1905 - 1969
The following information was emailed to me re Charlotte's bio.
"Her exact date of death was July 18, 1969. Her cause of death was lung cancer. She died the same night that Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and the same night that Ted Kennedy drove off the bridge. Prior to the Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Hitchcock directed three other shows for television. One of those shows, "Ford Startime," had a teleplay first aired April 5, 1960 titled "Incident At A Corner." It was based on a story by Charlotte and Charlotte also wrote the teleplay. Stars in that show included Vera Miles, Paul Hartman and George Peppard.
'Charlotte Armstrong' was a pseudonym composed of her first and middle name, although her son has emailed me to advise that he thinks of this name as her maiden name. Her last name was 'Lewi'. Using the 'Mike Russell' pseudonym, she published a short story titled "The Enemy" in the May 1951 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine ... later reprinted in the June 1991 issue. Between those years, she published 13 other stories in EQMM -- "The Hedge Between" (? 1953), "Laugh It Off" (October 1953), "What Would You Have Done?" (July 1955), "And Already Lost" (June 1957, "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning" (? 1959), "The Ring in the Fish" (August 1959), "The Other Shoe" (July 1962), "Run - If You Can" (February 1964), "Mink Coat, Very Cheap" (May 1964), "The Case for Miss Peacock" (February 1965), "A Matter of Timing" (October 1966), "The Splintered Monday" (March 1966) and "From Out of the Garden" (March 1968). A fantasy novelette she wrote titled "Three Day Magic" was published 4 times ... first in a 1948 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, then reprinted in the same magazine in September 1952 (at a time when Anthony Boucher was one of the magazine's editors), and then printed in two 1986 anthologies titled "Strange Maine" and "Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy #7: Magical Wishes." One other note worth mentioning. "Protege" was not only published by Putnam in 1970, a Thriller Book Club edition was also published in the U.K. the same year ... and, as it happens (I noticed your "au" email suffix), that version is available (including dust jacket) for A$6 from Index Books and Music, 184 Payneham Road Evandale, Adelaide, SA 5069. Their email address is: [email protected] That's about all I could find out. Hope it helps your page. Regards, J. Alec West" http://MysteryVault.net
Books
A Dram of Poison
Published Intl Polygonics 1989
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A Little Less than Kind
Published Intl Polytechnics 1989
The Balloon Man
Adapted to the cinema in 1970 per Claude Chabrol, under the title Rupture.
Original Published 1968 (out of print)
The Better To Eat You
When he hires shy, bookish Sarah as his summer research assistant, Professor David Wakely is ill-prepared for the disasters that seem to follow the wealthy woman around wherever she goes.
Published Kensington Pub Corps 1992 (out of print)
The Black-Eyed Stranger
Published originally 1951 (out of print)
The Case of the Weird Sisters
The first novel of suspense of this author who was to make others well of them and who appears in good place among the female writers who explored this criminal kind. Agreeing to a brief visit with his young fiancée+a7e's eccentric sisters--blind Gertrude, deaf Maude, and one-armed Isabel--greying millionaire Innes Whitlock becomes the victim of a series of bizarre accidents.
Published 1943, Kensington Pub Corps 1992 (out of stock)
Catch as Catch Can
Published Kensington Pub Corp 1990
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The Chocolate Cobweb
More than deductive, this criminal novel is intuitive since the events are perceived, for the reader, by the murderer
Published 1948
The Cool Ones
Dream of Fair Women
The Edgar Award-winning author of The Case of the Weird Sisters showcases her flair for creating unforgettable characters in a brilliant mystery of multiple identities and murder. A beautiful young woman checks into a rooming house and promptly falls into a impenetrable sleep. At the hospital, she is identified as three different missing women--all of whom are in grave danger. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Published Kensington Pub Corp 1992
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The Dream Walker
When the publicity-seeking antics of a budding Hollywood starlet known as the Dream Walker tarnish the usually spotless reputation of a family friend, Manhattan acting teacher Olivia Hudson decides to beat the actress at her own game.
Published Kensington Pub Corps 1992
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The Gift Shop
Published Putnam 1967
The Innocent Flower
Published Kensington Pub Corps 1990
Jigsaw
Published Bantam 1996
Lay on Mac Duff
Young Bessie Gibbon witnesses an odd game of Parcheesi at the home of her wealthy uncle. He and his friends are playing as if their lives depended on the game's outcome. And later that evening, one of them is found dead--with the red Parcheesi marker on his body. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Published Kensington Pub Corp 1993
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Lemon in the Basket
Published Intl Polygonics 1989
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Mischief
This criminal novel of 1950 was to provide two years after its first role in Marilyn Monroe in a rather faithful film of Roy Baker. Independently of this economic situation, this account a little horrifying at a baby-sitter psychopath deserves the reading.
Published Intl Polytechnics 1987
Night Call
Protege
Published Putnam 1970
The Seventeen Widows of Sans Souci
Something Blue
Published originally 1962
Turret Room
Published Ameron 1996
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The Unsuspected
Very good suspense where the intrigue plays on " how? ", the reader knowing very well from the very start who is the criminal.
The Witch's House
Published Intl Polytechnics 1991
The Charlotte Armstrong Festival
Published Putnam 1975
The Charlotte Armstrong Treasury
Published Amereon 1978 (out of stock)
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