Ulverscroft Romance

About Author

Phyllis Ayame Whitney was born in Yokohama, Japan, the daughter of American parents, and spent her early years in Asia. She began writing early in her teens. In 1918, upon the death of her father, she travelled with her mother to Berkeley, California, and then to San Antonio, Texas. A few years later her mother died, and she moved to Chicago to live with her aunt. After graduating from high school, she began to write seriously, and began to sell her stories to newspapers and pulp magazines while supporting herself by working for The Chicago Public Library and bookstores in Chicago. She married her first husband in 1934. During the 1940s she was a children's book editor for both the Chicago Sun and the Philadelphia Enquirer. Her first book, a mystery for children called A Place for Ann, was published in 1941. Over the course of her career, she wrote more than 70 novels. In 1961, her book The Mystery of the Haunted Pool won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Juvenile novel, and she received another in 1964 for The Mystery of the Hidden Hand. In 1975, she was elected President of the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1988, she was awarded its Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.

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Books in this Series

Silverhill

Phyllis A. Whitney

4.5 (2)

From the jacket Silverhill-a gray ghost of a house brooding among its white birch trees, which seems to Mallie Rice haunted by evil reflections from the past. In its Hall of Mirrors even her cousin Gerald Gorham, curator of the fabulous Gorham collection of treasures, hardly knows reality from illusion. Yet Mallie must discover the truth the great house so mockingly conceals. Silverhill-where the shadow of Grandmother Julia Gorham lies long across the lives of those forced to remain beneath its roof. Here Mallie must fight to understand Wayne Martin, the young doctor who deeply attracts her, fight to save her half-demented Aunt Arvilla, and at length fight for her very life. Silverhill marshalls its mysterious forces to move against Mallie, in an attempt to destroy her love and her sanity, as Aunt Arvilla's were destroyed long ago.

Mistress of Martinscombe

Jan Tempest

1.5 (2)

Rodney owed her boy"s name to her father's desire for a son and heir. When her father died he left the farm to her in hope that she would take over the running of it. Duty called, but would mean giving up her wonderful job and seeing Eddie again, Eddie whom she had loved but who had married Mellora instead. When she did take over Martinscombe, the big problem turned out to be Noel Alsford. Why was he so eager to tell her how to run her life?