Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (b. 1905-05-02 Vulcan, Michigan, d. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Norway Township is a Civil township of Dickinson County in the U 1969-07-18 Glendale, California) was an American author. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, Glendale ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created 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. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story ^[1]

Armstrong Lewi attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1925. Barnard College is a women's liberal arts college founded in 1889 ^[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. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars) named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers based in New York. 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 Screenplays 3 Films 4 Footnotes 5 Further reading 6 External links

Publications

• The Happiest Days, 1939 (play)
• Ring Around Elizabeth, 1941 (play)
• Lay On, Mac Duff! 1942
• The Case of the Weird Sisters, 1943
• The Innocent Flower, 1945 (also known as Death Filled the Glass)
• The 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 Trouble in Thor, 1953 (as Jo Valentine; also known as And Sometimes 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 Albatross, 1957 (short story collection)
• 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
• The Witch's House, 1964
• The Turret Room, 1965
• Dream of Fair Woman, 1966
• I See You, 1966 (short story collection)
• Gift Shop, 1967
• The Balloon Man, 1968 (ISBN 1-122-42235-0)
• Lemon in the Basket, 1968
• Seven Seats to the Moon, 1969
• The Protege, 1970

Screenplays

• "Incident at a Corner", episode of Startime, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959
• "The Summer Hero," episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, 1960
• Three episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Sybilla" (dir. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 Ida Lupino), "The Five-Forty-Eight," "Across the Threshold" (1960)

Films

The following films were adapted from Armstrong Lewi's novels and stories. Ida Lupino (4 February &ndash 3 August) was an English film actress, director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers

• 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

Footnotes

1. ^  Detective Fiction
2. ^  Swartley, Ariel (Apr. Talk About a Stranger is an American Film noir released in 1952 and directed by David Bradley. Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 film The thriller stars Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel The Unsuspected ( 1947) is a Film noir starring Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, and Joan Caulfield. 30, 1999) "Guns and Roses: The Women of Noir". LAWeekly.
3. ^ Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards Database
4. ^  Fantastic Fiction

Further reading

Burke, Jan. "The Last Word: The Mean Streets of the Suburbs, the Kindness of Strangers---A Tribute to Charlotte Armstrong. " Clues: A Journal of Detection 25. 4 (Summer 2007): 65-69.

External links

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

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