Born: 1905   Vulcan , MI
Died: 1969
Parents: Frank H. and Clara Armstrong
Spouse: Jack Lewi
Children: Jeremy, Jacquelin, Peter
Address(es):
Last known
Glendale , CA

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The protégé - Published posthumously	Fiction , Mystery , Romance	Adult	New York, Coward McCann	1970
	Seven Seats to the Moon	Fiction , Horror , Mystery	Adult	New York, Coward-McCann	1969
	The Balloon Man	Fiction , Mystery , Suspense/Thriller	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1968
	Lemon in the Basket	Fiction , Romance , Suspense/Thriller	Adult	New York, Coward-McCann	1967
	I See You	Fiction , Short Stories , Suspense/Thriller	Adult	New York, Coward-McCann	1966
	The Gift Shop	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York, Coward-McCann	1966
	The Turret Room	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York, Coward-McCann	1965
	The Witch's House	Fiction	Adult	Coward-McCann	1963
	A little less than kind.	Suspense/Thriller	Adult	New York, Coward-McCann	1963
	Duo: The Girl with a Secret; Incident at a Corner	Fiction	Adult	New York: Coward-McCann	1959
	The seventeen widows of Sans Souci	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1959
	The albatross	Fiction , Mystery , Short Stories	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1957
	A Dram of Poison	Fiction , Mystery , Romance	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1956
	The Dream Walker	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1955
	The Better to Eat You	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1954
	The Trouble in Thor - As Jo Valentine. Republished, 1971 by Berkley Pub. The tension generated by a mining accident brings underplay to the surface in this character story about a mining village in the U.P. in the 1920s.	Fiction , Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1953
	Catch-as-Catch-Can	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1952
	Mischief	Fiction , Horror , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1950
	The Unsuspected, a Novel	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1946
	The Innocent Flower	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1945
	The case of the weird sisters - Agreeing to a brief visit with his young fiance's eccentric sisters--blind Gertrude, deaf Maude, and one-armed Isabel--graying millionaire Innes Whitlock becomes the victim of a series of bizarre accidents. Movie The Three Weird Sisters (1948) adapted from the book	Fiction , Michigan , Mystery	Adult	New York : Coward-McCann	1943
	Lay on, Mac Duff! - Republished, 1993	Fiction , Mystery	Adult	New York, NY : Kensington Pub. Corp.	1942
	Other writings: - Plays: The Happiest Days, 1939,Ring Around Elizabeth, 1941. Screenplays: "Incident at a Corner", episode of Startime, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959; "The Summer Hero," episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, 1960; Three episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Sybilla" (dir. Ida Lupino); "The Five-Forty-Eight" (adapted from the John Cheever short story); and "Across the Threshold", 1960. Several of her works were republished in "Treasuries" or "Readers" - See the MeLCat link.		Adult
	Other: - The following films were adapted from Armstrong's novels and stories. Merci pour le chocolat, 2000 (from the novel The Chocolate Cobweb) (dir. Claude Chabrol) The Sitter, 1991 (from the novel Mischief) (dir. Rick Berger) La Rupture, 1970 (from the novel The Balloon Man) (dir. Claude Chabrol) Talk About a Stranger, 1952 (from the short story, "The Enemy") Don't Bother to Knock, 1952 (from the novel Mischief) The Three Weird Sisters, 1948 (from the novel The Case of the Weird Sisters) (dir. Daniel Birt) The Unsuspected, 1947		Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Unknown

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

MeLCat Links:
http://elibrary.mel.org/search~S15?/aarmstrong%2C+charlotte/aarmstrong+charlotte/1%2C4%2C107%2CB/exact&FF=aarmstrong+charlotte+1905+1969&1%2C99%2C/indexsort=-

Her papers are at Boston University http://hgar-srv3.bu.edu/collections/collection?id=121563

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