Charlotte Amstrong: "Mischief". Engelsk krimnalroman

Charlotte Amstrong: "Mischief". Engelsk krimnalroman

Coward-McCann, 1950.

Innbundet. Smussomslag.

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Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905, in Vulcan, Michigan – July 7, 1969, in Glendale, California) was an American author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels. She also worked for The New York Times' advertising department, as a fashion reporter for Breath of the Avenue (a buyer's guide), and in an accounting firm.

Armstrong Lewi graduated from Vulcan High School in Vulcan, Michigan, in June 1921. She attended the junior college program at Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois for one year (1921–22), during which time she served as Editor-in-Chief of the student publication, Ferry Tales. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1925. She had a daughter and two sons with her husband, Jack Lewi.

** Awards

In 1957, she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novel A Dram of Poison. She wrote two other Edgar-nominated novels: The Gift Shop (1966) and Lemon in the Basket (1967). Three of her short stories, all published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, were nominated for Edgars: "And Already Lost" (1957), "The Case for Miss Peacock" (1965), and "The Splintered Monday" (1966).

** Publications

The Happiest Days, 1939 (play)

Ring Around Elizabeth, 1941 (play)

Lay On, Mac Duff! 1942

The Case of the Weird Sisters, 1943

The Innocent Flower, 1945 (also known as Death Filled the Glass)

The Unsuspected, 1945/6, Coward-McCann

The Chocolate Cobweb, 1948

Mischief, 1951

The Black-Eyed Stranger, 1952

Catch-as-Catch-Can, 1953 (also known as Walk Out on Death)

The Trouble in Thor, 1953 (as Jo Valentine; also known as And Sometimes Death)

The Better to Eat You, 1954 (also known as Murder's Nest)

The Dream Walker, 1955 (also known as Alibi for Murder)

A Dram of Poison, 1956

The Albatross, 1957 (short story collection)

Incident at a Corner, 1957

The Seventeen Widows of San Souci, 1959

The Girl with a Secret, 1959

Something Blue, 1959

Then Came Two Women, 1962

The One-Faced Girl, 1963

The Mark of the Hand, 1963

The Witch's House, 1963

Who's Been Sitting in My Chair?, 1963

A Little Less Than Kind, 1964

The Turret Room, 1965

Dream of Fair Woman, 1966

I See You, 1966 (short story collection)

The Gift Shop, 1966

Lemon in the Basket, 1967

The Balloon Man, 1968

Seven Seats to the Moon, 1969

The Protege, 1970

** Screenplays

"Incident at a Corner", episode of Startime, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959

"The Summer Hero," episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, 1960

Three episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Sybilla" (dir. Ida Lupino); "The Five-Forty-Eight" (adapted from the John Cheever short story); and "Across the Threshold", 1960

The Mark of the Hand was adapted for an episode of the Thriller television series.

** Films

The following films were adapted from Armstrong's novels and stories.

Merci pour le chocolat, 2000 (from the novel The Chocolate Cobweb) (dir. Claude Chabrol)

The Sitter, 1991 (from the novel Mischief) (dir. Rick Berger)

La Rupture, 1970 (from the novel The Balloon Man) (dir. Claude Chabrol)

Talk About a Stranger, 1952 (from the short story, "The Enemy")

Don't Bother to Knock, 1952 (from the novel Mischief) (dir. Roy Baker)

The Three Weird Sisters, 1948 (from the novel The Case of the Weird Sisters) (dir. Daniel Birt)

The Unsuspected, 1947 (dir. Michael Curtiz)

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