Carolyn Hart

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Carolyn Gimpel Hart (born Carolyn Gimpel in Oklahoma) is a mystery writer who has won two Agatha Awards. She began as a journalist writing under the name Carolyn G. Hart. She gave up journalism to raise her kids, but returned to writing with a juvenile fiction mystery in 1964. She gained wider attention twenty years later with the Death on Demand series.[1]

She is also known for the World War II novel Letter from Home, which received a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers at Oklahoma State University–Tulsa. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma (class of 1958)[2] and she currently lives in Oklahoma City.[3]

[edit] Death on Demand Mysteries

  1. Death on Demand (1987)
  2. Design for Murder (1988)
  3. Something Wicked (1988)
  4. Honeymoon with Murder (1988)
  5. A Little Class on Murder (1989)
  6. Deadly Valentine (1990)
  7. The Christie Caper (1991)
  8. Southern Ghost (1992)
  9. Mint Julep Murder (1995)
  10. Yankee Doodle Dead (1998)
  11. White Elephant Dead (1999)
  12. Sugarplum Dead (2000)
  13. April Fool Dead (2002)
  14. Engaged to Die (2003)
  15. Murder Walks the Plank (2004)
  16. Death of the Party (2005)
  17. Dead Days of Summer (2006)
  18. Death Walked In (2008)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mystery Guide Interview with Carolyn Hart
  2. ^ Wall, Judith. "Hart of the Mystery", Sooner Magazine, Winter 2007, pp. 9-13. 
  3. ^ Library of Congress's website

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