Kathleen Moore Knight (1890–1984)
Auteur de Trademark of a Traitor
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de Kathleen Moore Knight
Death blew out the match 6 exemplaires
Beauty is a beast 3 exemplaires
They're going to kill me 3 exemplaires
Seven were veiled 2 exemplaires
Design In Diamonds 2 exemplaires
Birds of ill omen 2 exemplaires
Acts of Black Night 2 exemplaires
Jungle Murder 1 exemplaire
The Blue Horse of Taxco 1 exemplaire
The tainted token 1 exemplaire
Three of diamonds 1 exemplaire
Valse macabre 1 exemplaire
Borderline Murder 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Death Goes to a Reunion | Murder through the Looking Glass | To the Tune of Murder (1952) 3 exemplaires
The Robineau Look | Twist of the Knife | Vanished 3 exemplaires
Three for the Money | Which Doctor? | High Rendezvous 2 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- Amos, Alan
- Date de naissance
- 1890-05-19
- Date de décès
- 1984-07-30
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu du décès
- Vineyard Haven, Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA
- Professions
- mystery writer
detective novelist
crime novelist - Courte biographie
- Kathleen Moore Knight wrote 38 crime novels during the "Golden Age" of detective fiction, some of them under the pseudonym Alan Amos. Her books were popular and staples of Doubleday’s Crime Club. Many of them are written in the style of what Ogden Nash called the Had-I-But-Known School. She began her literary career in 1935 with Death Blew Out the Match, the first in a series of books featuring amateur sleuth Elisha Macomber on the fictional Penberthey Island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where the author lived.
The tone is mildly humorous, recalling the works of Phoebe Atwood Taylor, another Cape Cod writer. Other books were more focused on adventure and romantic suspense in exotic settings such as Central and South America.
She also wrote four classic whodunits starring Margot Blair, a New York City publicist turned amateur sleuth.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 34
- Aussi par
- 17
- Membres
- 95
- Popularité
- #197,646
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
- Langues
- 1