8 Novels by Charlotte Armstrong
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Overview: Full name Charlotte Armstrong Lewi. Wrote 29 novels, plus short stories and plays under the name Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine. Additional writing jobs: New York Times (advertising department), Breath of the Avenue (fashion reporter).
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Catch-As-Catch-Can
In a villa on the California coast, a murderer stalks a young heiress
Laila Breen is a strangely naive girl. Her father Jonas is an adventurer, a robber baron who made his fortune traveling exotic climes. Laila speaks French and knows how to order fine food, but she cannot read a newspaper and can barely write her own name. Jonas settles in California, planning to get this strange eighteen-year-old tutored in the ways of practical life. He dies soon after, leaving his daughter rich, clueless, and alone. Her only friend is Dee Allison, a cousin who tries to help Laila even after the orphan catches the eye of Dee’s fiance. Standing in Dee’s way is a gang of relatives who care more about Laila’s fortune than her future. When a housekeeper falls victim to poisoning, Dee fears for Laila. For a young girl with money, nothing is more dangerous than family.
The Chocolate Cobweb
Investigating her mysterious birth leads a bright young artist into peril
For a few hours after her birth, Amanda Garth had two fathers. One was John, the kind, forthright man who would raise her. The other was Tobias Garrison, a well-known California artist who, because of a mix-up in the hospital’s nursery, briefly thought Amanda was his. The confusion was straightened out, and the misunderstanding is forgotten for twenty-three years, when questions about her birth cause Amanda to approach the Garrisons. This could prove a deadly mistake. Someone in that poisonous family is plotting a murder, and the last thing they want is another heir to the massive Garrison fortune. The quest for truth could mean death for the girl whose birth was shrouded in secrecy.
I See You: Stories
Nine stories of revenge, compassion, love, and loathing in a collection “to be cherished” from an Edgar Award–winning author (Dorothy B. Hughes).
A child is unwittingly introduced to the very meaning of terror. A teenage girl eyes her mother’s lover with curiosity and caution. A nasty rumor poisons the reputation of a guarded neighbor. A schoolteacher’s attempt to reach four bullying students results in a wicked sting. An elderly woman’s patience begins to crack in the most unexpected ways. . . .
In this suspenseful anthology, author Charlotte Armstrong illuminates the mysteries of life in tales told from perspectives ranging from infancy, childhood, and adolescence to adulthood and the deathbed. In each piece, Armstrong demonstrates how the tiniest spark of emotion—a stray whisper or the impression of a stranger—can shed light on the past, define the future, become a catalyst for tragedy, or influence fears that last a lifetime.
Along with Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine First Prize Winner for Best Detective Story “The Enemy”—a story that was made into the 1952 MGM film noir Talk About a Stranger—this gripping anthology also includes “At the Circus,” “The World Turned Upside Down,” “The Enemy,” “Miss Murphy,” “Motto Day,” “The Weight of the World,” “The Conformers,” “How They Met,” and “I See You.”
A Little Less Than Kind
At fifty, David had everything he ever wanted: the presidency of a large corporation, a luxurious mansion, and marriage to Abby – all made possible by the death of his best friend, Abby’s husband. But Abby’s son, finding the arrangement less than ideal, was determined to prove his stepfather a murderer.
Mischief
Can the actions of a mere teen-age girl give you goose pimples? Jed Towers, cynical and hardened, thought not–but that was before he’d met Nell Munro, baby sitter extraordinary…What happens in this unified and swiftly paced novel of suspense and horror will make your hair stand on end.
The Seventeen Widows of Sans Souci
A middle-aged widow makes a new life in a strange apartment house
Nona Henry’s husband is dead, and with him the life they spent years building in New York City. Unable to bear the Manhattan winter without him, Nona goes west to Pasadena, California, land of sun, sand, and rebirth. She finds a picture postcard advertising a boarding house called Sans Souci and, charmed by the elegant hotel’s stately patio, makes a one-month reservation. Reality does not live up to the postcard.
Sans Souci is dingy, cramped, and dark, a claptrap hotel full of shabby rooms whose windows overlook a run-down neighborhood. But Nona will not give in. Sixteen other widows live in the hotel. Some are lifers, some just passing through. In this eclectic mix of women whose men have gone, Nona finds a niche, and learns that the end of her old life can’t stop her from beginning again.
The Unsuspected
THE SUSPECT
Luther Grandison was a name that meant many different things to many different people.
To movie- and theater-goers, it signified the Mr. Grandison, director of award-winning spine chillers.
To Mathilda Franzier, it meant "Grandy," the man who had sheltered her since childhood and personally saw to it that nobody would rob her of her fortune.
To Althea Conover, it meant rescue from the fate of all penniless waifs – the orphanage.
But to Francis Howard, the name had the strongest meaning of all…murder!
The Turret Room
They said he was an insane killer. But young Edie Thompson did not believe them. She was certain he was innocent, that his strangeness was only a mask for his terror. Was she right to hide him from the police? Was she saving a harmless youth…or setting the stage for another muder – her own?
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