Charlotte Armstrong
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Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905 – July 18, 1969) was an American writer. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels, as well as short stories, plays, and screenplays. 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. Additionally, she worked for the New Yorker magazine, publishing only three poems for them.
Books
The trouble in Thor
The trouble in the Michigan mining town of Thor begins when one married woman covets another married woman's husband and progresses toward disaster when that husband covets a young girl, and when the whole town of Thor is involved in its own disaster caused by a fatal explosion in the mines. The human problems are handled with great skill by Mi... more »ss valentine and the tumult of the disaster is tense and gripping.
The unsuspected
"In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl. The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband."--Container.
The albatross ..
Novelette and nine prize stories of suspense.
Strange Maine
Tales of Horror, Mysteries of the Sea, Science Fiction & Magic
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 7
Introduction: Wishing Will Make It So - essay by Isaac Asimov The Monkey's Paw - short story by W. W. Jacobs Behind the News - short story by Jack Finney The Flight of the Umbrella - novella by Marvin Kaye Tween - novelette by J. F. Bone The Boy Who Brought Love - short story by Edward D. Hoch The Vacation - short story by Ray Bradbury The Anything Box - short story by Zenna Henderson A Born Charmer - short story by Edward P. Hughes What If ... - short story by Isaac Asimov Millennium - short story by Fredric Brown Dreams Are Sacred - novelette by Peter Phillips The Same to You Doubled - short story by Robert Sheckley Gifts - short story by Gordon R. Dickson I Wish I May, I Wish I Might - short story by Bill Pronzini Three Day Magic - novella by Charlotte Armstrong The Bottle Imp - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Charlotte Armstrong treasury
Three of Charlotte Armstrong's great novels of suspense. The Mischief; The Dream Walker; and the Witch's House
The case of the weird sisters
An accomplished blend of romance and complex villainy (The New Yorker) from Edgar Award-winner Charlotte Armstrong. Millionaire Innes Whitlock and his gold-digging fiance Alice pay an unexpected call on his three odd sisters. When Innes meets with a series of near-fatal accidents. Alice suspects one of the sisters is more than eccentric . . . she may be a murderess.
The dream walker
Olivia Hudson, a drama teacher at a Manhattan girl’s school, refuses to let her uncle John Paul Marcus play the role of dupe in a real-life revenge story. Uncle John is a beloved war veteran, a New York institution, and a hard-working philanthropist with an unimpeachable reputation. His mistake—an honorable one, at that—was disclosing the financial chicanery of industrial heir Raymond Pankerman, and it could cost John his life. Raymond has staged the perfect crime, and the perfect frame-up, to destroy the old man. He has everything he needs: a failed and penniless playwright who’d sell his soul if the price was right, a budding television starlet looking for a breakout role, and a susceptible public suckered into believing a supernatural swindle that’s making headlines. As a good man is taken down by the outlandish claims of an “otherworldly” publicity-seeking beauty nicknamed the Dream Walker, Olivia refuses to stand idly by—especially since she has the talent to outwit and outplay an actress at her own duplicitous game.
Hound Dunnit
Contains: "The Sleeping Dog" by Ross MacDonald "The Enemy" by Charlotte Armstrong "The Dog Who Hated Jazz" by William Bankier "[Silver Blaze]( by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Dark Road Home" by Paul W. Fairman "The Emergency Exit Affair" by Michael Gilbert "How Come My Dog Don't Bark?" by Ron Goulart, "Dispatching Bootsie" by Joyce Harrington "Captain Leopold Goes to the Dogs" by Edward D. Hoch "Lincoln's Doctor's Son's Dog" by Warner Law The Dogsbody Case" by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. "Puzzle for Poppy" by Q. Patrick "Chambrun Gets the Message" by Hugh Pentecost "Raffles on the Trail of the Hound" by Barry Perowne "Coyote and Quarter-Moon" by Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallman "Sellin' Some Wood" by John Rudin "A Dog in the Daytime" (aka "The Body in the Hall" and "Die Like a Dog") by Rex Stout.
The witch's house
Two professors go missing from their California university. Dissatisfied with the efforts of the police, the devoted wife of one and the neurotic daughter of the other conduct their own investigation. A suave young man joins their search...for reasons of his own.