Writer
December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976
Credits:
Books:
A Compound for Death
(1943); Murder on a Tangent (1945); Appointment at Nine (1947); Fire at Will
(1950); The Last Straw (aka Driven to Kill) (1954); Dark Road (aka Dead Stop)
(1946); Family Skeleton (1949); Straw Man (1951); Trick or Treat (aka The Halloween
Murder) (1955); Method in Madness (aka Quiet Violence) (1957); Did She Fall or
Was She Pushed? (1959); Find the Woman (1962); The Chandler Policy (1971);
Unappointed Rounds (1956); Black Mail (1958); Mrs Meeker's Money (1961); Shadow
of a Man (1940); Who Rides a Tiger? (aka Sow the Wind) (1946); Enduring Old
Charms (aka Death for My Beloved) (1947); Testimony by Silence (1948); That
Which Is Crooked (1948); Count the Ways (1949); Look Back on Murder (1951);
Heavy, Heavy Hangs (1952); Do unto Others (1953); Prescription: Murder (1953);
Room for Murder (1955); My Neighbor's Wife (1957); No Next of Kin (1959); Dark
Lady (aka Sinister Lady (1961); Should Auld Acquaintance (1962); Here Lies...
(1963); The Hospitality of the House (aka Unsuspected Evil (1964); The
Departure of Mr. Gaudette (aka Fateful Departure) (1965); At Some Forgotten
Door (1966); The Magic Grandfather (aka Mask of Evil (1966); Night of Clear
Choice (aka Flame of Evil (1967); Money for the Taking (1968); Voice from the
Grave (1968); Two Little Children and How They Grew (1969); Do Not Fold,
Spindle or Mutilate (aka Death by Computer) (1970); Fatal Choice (1970);
Three's a Crowd (1972); The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared (1972); Only
Couples Need Apply (1973); Don't Go into the Woods Today (1974); Cry for Help
(1975); Winifred (1976); Muppets Most Wanted (2014); The Last Straw / The Pale
Door / The Dead Don't Speak (1955).
Movies and television:
Betrayal
(1974); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Kraft Theatre (1958); La
strada buia (1950); Stella (1950); The Straw Man (1953); Yesterday's Child
(1977).