Charlotte Armstrong

Biography

1905 - 1969

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Books

Albatross

The Seventeen Widows of Sans Souci

The Unsuspected

Very good suspense where the intrigue plays on " how? ", the reader knowing very well from the very start who is the criminal.

A Dram of Poison

Published Intl Polygonics 1989

Lemon in the Basket

Published Intl Polygonics 1989

The Gift Shop

Published Putnam 1967

The Innocent Flower

Published Kensington Pub Corps 1990

The Witch's House

Published Intl Polytechnics 1991

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

A Little Less than Kind

Published Intl Polytechnics 1989

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

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

Night Call

The Cool Ones

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

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

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 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

The Black-Eyed Stranger

Published originally 1951

Turret Room

Published Ameron 1988

The Balloon Man

Adapted to the cinema in 1970 per Claude Chabrol, under the title Rupture.

Original Published 1968

Something Blue

Published originally 1962

Catch as Catch Can

Published Kensington Pub Corp 1990

Protege

Published Putnam 1970

The Charlotte Armstrong Festival

Published Putnam 1975

The Charlotte Armstrong Treasury

Published Amereon 1978

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