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Charlotte Armstrong

The Edgar Awards Revisited: A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong (Best Novel; 1957)

By Ardi Alspach

January 25, 2019

The year is 1956, and let us set the scene: Elvis Presley enters the US music charts for the first time with Heartbreak Hotel, and later in the year, his magic hips appear on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time; Ninety-six U.S. Congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto, a protest against the 1954 Supreme…

The ZINNG: Women Crime Writers, Poisoned Poe, and a Killer Whale

By Crime HQ

September 3, 2015

Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s is a box set of work by Dorothy B. Hughes, Vera Caspary, Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar, Charlotte Armstrong, Dolores Hitchens, Helen Eustis, and Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. The website for the collection is worth exploring, with galleries, also essays from Sarah Weinman, the editor, and…

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