Rae Foley (1900–1978)
Autore di Donna temeraria - Il Giallo Mondadori n. 1382
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Nota di disambiguazione:
(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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Opere di Rae Foley
Fasornas hus 1 copia
Bones Of Contention 1 copia
Ricca da morire 1 copia
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Opere correlate
Enemy in the House | A Dead Ending | Repent at Leisure — Collaboratore — 4 copie
The Case of the Glamorous Ghost | Death and Mr. Potter | The Man in the Green Hat (1955) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here | The Kidnaped Child | This Woman Wanted (1971) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
A Fine and Private Place | The First Mrs. Winston — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Denniston, Elinor
- Altri nomi
- Allan, Dennis
Maxwell, Helen K.
Dunniston, Elinore
Foley, Rae
Loring, Emilie - Data di nascita
- 1900-09-20
- Data di morte
- 1978-05-24
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- North Dakota, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- translator
novelist
ghostwriter
crime writer
detective novelist
theatrical assistant - Relazioni
- Helburn, Theresa (boss)
- Breve biografia
- 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.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- 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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Statistiche
- Opere
- 59
- Opere correlate
- 32
- Utenti
- 518
- Popolarità
- #47,945
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 108
- Lingue
- 3
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.… (altro)