Hilda Lawrence (1894–1976)
Autor(a) de Death of a Doll
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Hilda Lawrence is the nom-de-plume of Hildegarde Kronmiller.
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Hildegarde Kronmiller
- Data de nascimento
- 1894-01-04
- Data de falecimento
- 1976
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Manhattan, New York, USA - Ocupação
- novelist
mystery novelist
detective novelist - Relacionamentos
- Lawrence, Reginald (husband | divorced)
- Pequena biografia
- Hilda Lawrence, née Hildegarde Kronmiller, was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was educated in Rochester, New York, where she married and later divorced playwright Reginald Lawrence. She worked as a reader for the blind and in the clippings department of Macmillan Publishers. An avid consumer of crime fiction, she published her debut novel, Blood Upon the Snow, in 1944. The book was a commercial success and introduced Manhattan private eye Mark East, who gets assistance from amateur New England sleuths Miss Beulah Pond and Miss Bessy Petty. She wrote only three more novels, A Time to Die (1945); Death of a Doll (1947), which is considered her masterpiece; and The Pavilion (1948). A collection of novelettes, Duet of Death, was issued in 1949. Lawrence's novels were a mixture of the hard-boiled and soft-boiled styles of detective fiction.
- Aviso de desambiguação
- Hilda Lawrence is the nom-de-plume of Hildegarde Kronmiller.
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- Obras
- 9
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- 9
- Membros
- 306
- Popularidade
- #76,934
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 26
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 1
First published in 1947, the style of writing did make it a chore to get into the story. I also found the two elderly amateur detectives somewhat annoying. Overall I liked the mystery but did not love it.
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