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Beinhaltet die Namen: Foley Rae, Elinore Denniston

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(eng) Elinor Denniston used a number of pseudonyms, including Dennis Allen, Rae Foley, Elinore Dunniston, and Helen K. Maxwell. Beginning in the 1950s, Denniston also ghost-wrote under the name "Emilie Loring", at least some of which may have been based on notes or drafts by Loring (who wrote the first 30 or so of the novels published under her name). 

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Girl on a High Wire (1969) 19 Exemplare
Suffer a Witch (1966) 15 Exemplare
Schnitzeljagd in den Tod (1972) 15 Exemplare
The Shelton Conspiracy (1967) 15 Exemplare
Fatal Lady (1964) 14 Exemplare
The Man in the Shadow (1994) 14 Exemplare
Nightmare House (1971) 14 Exemplare
Famous American spies (1962) 14 Exemplare
Ominous Star (1971) 13 Exemplare
Where is Mary Bostwick? (1958) 13 Exemplare
Scared to Death (1966) 13 Exemplare
The Hundredth Door (1950) 13 Exemplare
The Last Gamble (1956) 13 Exemplare
Run for Your Life (1957) 13 Exemplare
Repent at Leisure (1962) 13 Exemplare
Leiche nach Art des Hauses (1968) 13 Exemplare
Where Helen Lies (1976) 12 Exemplare
Put Out the Light (1976) 12 Exemplare
Trust a Woman? (1973) 12 Exemplare
Girl from Nowhere (1949) 11 Exemplare
Sleep Without Morning (1750) 11 Exemplare
The Girl Who Had Everything (1977) 10 Exemplare
Calculated Risk (1970) 10 Exemplare
Call It Accident (1965) 10 Exemplare
Dark Intent (1996) 9 Exemplare
Wild Night (1966) 9 Exemplare
The Brownstone House (1974) 8 Exemplare
Nightmare Honeymoon (1963) 8 Exemplare
Komm zurück und ruhe sanft (1975) 8 Exemplare
The Slippery Step (1977) 8 Exemplare
Wake the Sleeping Wolf (1952) 7 Exemplare
It's Murder, Mr. Potter (1961) 7 Exemplare
Dangerous to Me (1959) 7 Exemplare
No Hiding Place (1969) 7 Exemplare
No Tears for the Dead (1948) 6 Exemplare
The Velvet Web (1994) 6 Exemplare
Dark Hill (1975) 3 Exemplare
The Other Woman (1976) 3 Exemplare
Spur aus dem Nichts (1996) 2 Exemplare
Ricca da morire 1 Exemplar
Madness in the spring (1954) 1 Exemplar
Cauchemars (1962) 1 Exemplar
Fasornas hus 1 Exemplar

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Lady Killer | Girl from Nowhere | Place for a Poisoner (1949) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Etruscan Smile | The Slippery Step | Recoil (1977) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
A Fine and Private Place | The First Mrs. Winston — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Backlash, Where Helen Lies, The Kingsford Mark (1976) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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Rechtmäßiger Name
Denniston, Elinor
Andere Namen
Allan, Dennis
Maxwell, Helen K.
Dunniston, Elinore
Foley, Rae
Loring, Emilie
Geburtstag
1900-09-20
Todestag
1978-05-24
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
North Dakota, USA
Sterbeort
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Wohnorte
New York, New York, USA
Berufe
translator
novelist
ghostwriter
crime writer
detective novelist
theatrical assistant
Beziehungen
Helburn, Theresa (boss)
Kurzbiographie
Rae Foley was the most prolific of the many pseudonyms of Elinor Denniston. She began her writing career in 1936 as "Dennis Allen" and wrote four crime novels under that name over a 10-year period. Her first book as "Rae Foley" was No Tears for the Dead (1948). As Rae Foley, she wrote fast-paced mysteries and romantic suspense novels, and created several amateur detectives, the most famous of whom was Hiram Potter, a mild-mannered young man from a wealthy New York City family introduced in Death and Mr. Potter (1955; also published as The Peacock Is a Bird of Prey, 1976). Hiram Potter also appeared in Back Door to Death (1963), Call It Accident (1965), Dangerous to Me (1959) and A Calculated Risk (1970). Denniston also worked for decades as the assistant to playwright and pioneering theatrical producer Theresa Helburn. This helps explain why the Rae Foley novels are filled with theater references and playful literary quotes from Shakespeare, while actresses and actors are often the main characters. In the late 1950s, Denniston helped Helburn complete her theatrical memoir A Wayward Quest. Later she was hired as assistant and Dictaphone transcriber to Eleanor Roosevelt while she was working on her memoirs in preparation for an autobiography. After writer Emilie Loring died in 1951, Denniston was hired as a ghostwriter to complete several unfinished Loring manuscripts.
Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
Elinor Denniston used a number of pseudonyms, including Dennis Allen, Rae Foley, Elinore Dunniston, and Helen K. Maxwell. Beginning in the 1950s, Denniston also ghost-wrote under the name "Emilie Loring", at least some of which may have been based on notes or drafts by Loring (who wrote the first 30 or so of the novels published under her name). 

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This is a had-I-but-known from the seventies, when young women in crime novels married at the drop of a hat to men much older than they. In those olden days, vicious ex-wives could be nymphomaniacs. You just don't hear that any more!

Connie Winston, married just that morning after a whirlwind, month-long courtship, arrives with her architect husband at her new home to find a surprise party, which is about to descend from distasteful to disastrous with the arrival of the first Mrs Winston. The very next day someone is murdered, and it seems that all the suspects were present at the party.

Foley's Connie is a much more intelligent and energetic heroine than Mignon G Eberhart's usual droopy orphans, but, just like an Eberhart heroine, she puts herself in danger. Don't trust him, Connie!

A competent mystery with a nice seventies flavour.
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½
 
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pamelad | Oct 10, 2021 |
This book kept me second guessing myself the entire way through! Great suspense! The romance was minimal but still cute.
 
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MynTop | Apr 8, 2016 |
Bought this for Devilweed because I enjoy the Webb Carrick mysteries set around the coasts of Scotland with the detective an officer in the FIsheries Service. Tis one involves three men missing presumed dead from a an abandoned boat. However, I have now read some of The Heir Hunters -- Dean Quinn, after service as an investigator with the Judge Advocate Corps in the Army has to drop out of law school (Columbia0 and move to California for his health; he lands in California dead broke, and is hired by large handsome woman who owns a motel to clean out a cottage whose tenant was an old man who died 2 years before. Quinn fins bank books indicating the old man had $100,000 (big money in the '40s) and arranges with an heir-hunting service to find an heir. So for, good practical investigation. The third stoiry is apparently a damsel in disress type -not my thing.… (mehr)
 
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antiquary | Jun 19, 2015 |
The mystery is good, with a satisfying twist that can't quite be predicted before the end of the book. The writing is crisp and all the loose ends are nicely tied up. There are some slightly goofy scenes of romance, but nothing too sappy. Definitely worth reading.

[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2010/11/fatal-lady-by-rae-foley-1964.html ]
½
 
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kristykay22 | Nov 10, 2010 |

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