Hilda Lawrence (1894–1976)
Auteur van Death of a Doll
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(eng) Hilda Lawrence is the nom-de-plume of Hildegarde Kronmiller.
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- Officiële naam
- Hildegarde Kronmiller
- Geboortedatum
- 1894-01-04
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1976
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Manhattan, New York, USA - Beroepen
- novelist
mystery novelist
detective novelist - Relaties
- Lawrence, Reginald (husband | divorced)
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- 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.
- Ontwarringsbericht
- Hilda Lawrence is the nom-de-plume of Hildegarde Kronmiller.
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- #76,934
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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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