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Nom légal: Hildegarde Kronmiller
Date de naissance: 1894-01-04
Date de décès: 1976
Sexe: female
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Lieu du décès: New York, New York, USA
Lieux de résidence: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Manhattan, New York, USA
Professions: novelist
mystery novelist
detective novelist
Relations: Lawrence, Reginald (husband | divorced)
Courte biographie: 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.
Notice de désambigüisation: Hilda Lawrence is the nom-de-plume of Hildegarde Kronmiller.

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Death Of A Doll par Hilda Lawrence

Hope House is a boarding home for women and Ruth Miller is happy to finally have a room there. So why is she found dead a few days after arriving. But everyone is convinced she committed suicide or it was an accident. But the atmosphere insode the home seems to have changed. Who will come to the dead girls' aid.
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.
A NetGalley Book… (plus d'informations)

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Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |

Blood upon the snow par Hilda Lawrence

Mark East arrives at an East Coast estate near Crestwood, during a snowstorm. Basically he has been employed as a secretary to an archeologist, Stoneman. East soon determines that not is all as it should be with the inhabitants of the house.
I enjoyed this mystery which was written in 1944. A solid start to this series
A NetGalley Book

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Vesper1931 | 1 autre critique | Jul 29, 2021 |

The Pavilion par Hilda Lawrence

Think decadent Southern families, big old house, stern family retainers, etc. Some detection, but suspense wound up as tight as possible is really what The Pavilion is about. Regan Carr, 20, has just lost her mother when her distant cousin Hurst asks her to come live at his house on the Chesapeake in Maryland. When she arrives, Hurst is dead. Initially Regan is merely grieving, but nothing in the house seems quite right. Regan finds herself reading Hurst’s diaries with his brother Fray, who tries to keep his own thoughts hidden until he has heard Regan’s.

Contrived and improbable, yes. Very much of its time, yes. But it certainly deserved the good reviews it got, if only because the full story of Hurst’s life and death is so skillfully masked and gradually revealed to create stunning atmosphere and suspense.… (plus d'informations)

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NinieB | 2 autres critiques | Jul 6, 2018 |

The Pavilion par Hilda Lawrence

Hilda Lawrence writes good old-fashioned mysteries and I love the dark, rainy atmosphere she creates. Death of a Doll is also good.

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Barbara_M._Jones | 2 autres critiques | Jul 17, 2011 |

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