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]

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