Charlotte Armstrong
2 May 1905 – 18 July 1969
59 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Charlotte Armstrong was born in Vulcan, Michigan. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1925. Her first published novel, Lay On, MacDuff!, was published in 1942. In 1957, she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novel A Dram of Poison.
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.
Also published as: Jo Valentine
Most-read books
A Dram of Poison
5 · 1956 · 19 want to read
Strange Maine
3 · 1986 · 17 want to read
The witch's house
5 · 1963 · 15 want to read
The case of the weird sisters
4 · 1943 · 12 want to read
Hound Dunnit
4 · 1987 · 9 want to read
Something Blue
1959 · 7 want to read
The Charlotte Armstrong festival
1975 · 6 want to read
The turret room
4 · 1965 · 3 want to read
Lemon in the Basket
1967 · 4 want to read
The chocolate cobweb
4 · 1948 · 3 want to read
The Charlotte Armstrong treasury
1972 · 4 want to read
Mischief
3 · 1950 · 2 want to read
The balloon man
5 · 1968 · 2 want to read
The gift shop
1966 · 2 want to read
Catch-as-catch-can
1952 · 2 want to read
Seven seats to the moon
1969 · 3 want to read
The protégé
1970 · 2 want to read
The unsuspected
5 · 1946 · 1 want to read
I see you
4 · 1966 · 1 want to read
The seventeen widows of Sans Souci
3 · 1959
The Black-Eyed Stranger
1951 · 1 want to read
The albatross ..
Charlotte Armstrong
The albatross ..
1957
The innocent flower
Charlotte Armstrong
The innocent flower
1945 · 1 want to read
The Mark of the Hand
1963 · 1 want to read