Charlotte Armstrong

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Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (b. 1905-05-02 Vulcan, Michigan, d. 1969-07-18 Glendale, California) was an American author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote over 28 novels, as well as working 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.^[1]

Armstrong Lewi attended the University of Wisconsin and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1925.^[2] She had a daughter and two sons with her husband, Jack Lewi.

In 1957, she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novel A Dram of Poison. She had two other Edgar-nominated novels, both in published in 1967: The Gift Shop, and Lemon in the Basket. Three of her short stories, all published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, were nominated for Edgars: "And Already Lost," (1957) and "The Case for Miss Peacock" (1965) and "The Splintered Monday" (1966).^[3]

Contents 1 Publications 2 Films 3 Footnotes 4 External links

[edit] Publications

• Unsuspected, 1946 (ISBN 1-122-42233-4)^[4]
• The Chocolate Cobweb, 1948
• Mischief, 1951
• The Black-Eyed Stranger, 1952
• Catch as Catch Can, 1953 (also known as Walk Out on Death)
• The Better to Eat You, 1954 (also known as Murder's Nest)
• The Dream Walker, 1955 (ISBN 1-127-32660-0, also known as Alibi for Murder)
• Dram of Poison, 1956 (ISBN 1-117-07473-0)
• The Seventeen Widows of San Souci, 1959
• Something Blue, 1959
• Then Came Two Women, 1962
• The One-Faced Girl, 1963
• The Mark of the Hand, 1963
• Who's Been Sitting in My Chair?, 1963
• A Little Less Than Kind, 1964
• Witch's House, 1964
• Turret Room, 1965
• Dream of Fair Woman, 1966
• I See You, 1966
• Gift Shop, 1967
• Balloon Man, 1968 (ISBN 1-122-42235-0)
• Lemon in the Basket, 1968
• Seven Seats to the Moon, 1969
• The Protege, 1970

[edit] Films

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

• Merci pour le Chocolat, 2000 (from the novel The Chocolate Cobweb)
• The Sitter, 1991 (from the novel Mischief)
• La Rupture, 1970 (from the novel The Balloon Man)
• Talk About A Stranger, 1952 (from the short story, "The Enemy")
• Don't Bother to Knock, 1952 (from the novel Mischief)
• The Three Weird Sisters, 1948 (from the novel The Case of the Weird Sisters)
• The Unsuspected, 1947

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑  Detective Fiction
2. ↑  Swartley, Ariel (Apr. 30, 1999) "Guns and Roses: The Women of Noir". LAWeekly.
3. ↑ Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards Database
4. ↑  Fantastic Fiction

[edit] External links

• Charlotte Armstrong at the Internet Movie Database
• List of Charlotte Armstrong stories