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Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008)

Autor(a) de Woman without a Past

109+ Works 10,480 Membros 151 Críticas 14 Favorited

About the Author

Mystery author Phyllis A. Whitney was born in Yokohama, Japan to American parents on September 9, 1903. After her father's death in 1918, she and her mother traveled from Japan to San Francisco, California on an ocean liner. In 1924, she graduated from McKinley High School in Chicago and sold short mostrar mais stories to newspapers, church papers, and pulp magazines as well as worked in bookstores and libraries. She was a Children's Book Editor of the Chicago Sun's Book Week from 1942 to 1946 and the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1947 to 1948. She also taught juvenile fiction writing courses at Northwestern University in 1945 and at New York University from 1947 to 1958. She writes both juvenile and adult mysteries, many set in an exotic location. Her first juvenile book was published in 1941 and her first adult novel was published in 1943. Since then, she has written over 75 books. She has won numerous awards including the Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1961 and 1964, the Sequoyah Award of Oklahoma, and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1988. Phyllis A. Whitney passed away on February 8, 2008 at the age of 104. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Phyllis A. Whitney

Woman without a Past (1991) 366 exemplares
The Ebony Swan (1992) 331 exemplares
Amethyst Dreams (1997) 311 exemplares
Daughter of the Stars (1994) 309 exemplares
Star Flight (1993) 308 exemplares
The Golden Unicorn (1976) 304 exemplares
The Singing Stones (1990) 303 exemplares
Feather on the Moon (1988) 298 exemplares
The Turquoise Mask (1973) 249 exemplares
Silversword (1987) 248 exemplares
Rainbow in the Mist (1989) 248 exemplares
The Stone Bull (1977) 246 exemplares
Hunter's Green (1968) 242 exemplares
Listen for the Whisperer (1971) 237 exemplares
Dream of Orchids (1985) 231 exemplares
Rainsong (1984) 224 exemplares
Spindrift (1975) 215 exemplares
Lost Island (1963) 214 exemplares
Domino (1958) 212 exemplares
Flaming Tree (1986) 212 exemplares
Snowfire (1972) 204 exemplares
The Winter People (1969) 202 exemplares
Vermilion (1981) 202 exemplares
Silverhill (1967) 200 exemplares
Emerald (1982) 195 exemplares
Window on the Square (1962) 195 exemplares
The Glass Flame (1978) 190 exemplares
Poinciana (1980) 179 exemplares
Mystery of the Green Cat (1957) — Autor — 177 exemplares
Columbella (1966) 173 exemplares
Thunder Heights (1960) 164 exemplares
Black Amber (1964) 163 exemplares
The Trembling Hills (1956) 159 exemplares
Sea Jade (1964) 149 exemplares
The Quicksilver Pool (1955) 142 exemplares
Seven Tears for Apollo (1963) 135 exemplares
Mystery of The Haunted Pool (1960) 129 exemplares
Red is For Murder (1943) — Autor — 125 exemplares
Guide to Fiction Writing (1982) 123 exemplares
The Mystery of the Crimson Ghost (1969) 118 exemplares
Skye Cameron (1957) 116 exemplares
The Moonflower (1958) 107 exemplares
Blue Fire (1961) 99 exemplares
Mystery on the Isle of Skye (1955) 92 exemplares
Step to the Music (1953) 69 exemplares
Secret of the Emerald Star (1964) 67 exemplares
Secret of the Samurai Sword (1958) 66 exemplares
The Mystery of the Gulls (1949) 65 exemplares
Mystery of the Golden Horn (1963) 64 exemplares
Mystery of the Black Diamonds (1954) 64 exemplares
The Fire and the Gold (1956) 63 exemplares
Mystery of the Hidden Hand (1963) 57 exemplares
Secret of Haunted Mesa (1975) 55 exemplares
Mystery of the Angry Idol (1965) 50 exemplares
Mystery of the Strange Traveler (1951) 49 exemplares
Secret of the Spotted Shell (1957) 47 exemplares
Secret of the Tiger's Eye (1961) 46 exemplares
Secret of the Stone Face (1977) 45 exemplares
Willow Hill (1947) 44 exemplares
Black Amber [and] Blue Fire (1963) 41 exemplares
Ever After (1948) 38 exemplares
The Vanishing Scarecrow (1971) 34 exemplares
Mystery of the Scowling Boy (1973) 34 exemplares
The Highest Dream (1956) 32 exemplares
Linda's Homecoming (1971) 32 exemplares
Nobody Likes Trina (1976) 29 exemplares
Secret of the Missing Footprint (1970) 28 exemplares
Secret of Goblin Glen (1968) 27 exemplares
A Long Time Coming (1954) 24 exemplares
Creole Holiday (1959) 15 exemplares
A Star for Ginny (1942) — Autor — 9 exemplares
A Place for Ann (1941) — Autor — 7 exemplares
The Silver Inkwell (1945) 6 exemplares
Song of the Shaggy (1976) 3 exemplares
fire 2 exemplares
A Window for Julie (1943) 2 exemplares
El Viento En Las Rocas (1992) 2 exemplares
Det sorte rav (1977) 1 exemplar
Það vorar á ný 1 exemplar
Fortune's Hand 1 exemplar
L'empreinte du passé (1997) 1 exemplar
VERMIGLIO 1 exemplar
Fuego azul (1960) 1 exemplar
Love Me, Love Me Not (1952) 1 exemplar
A Virgem de Jade 1 exemplar
the haunted cave 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Six Gothic Tales [Readers Digest Condensed Books] (1979) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
How to Write a Romance and Get it Published (1983) — Contribuidor, algumas edições121 exemplares
Edwina Noone's Gothic Sampler (1966) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Writing Mystery and Crime Fiction (1985) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares

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The dust jacket for Secret of the Stone Face by Phyllis A. Whitney is misleading. There is a face carved into the stone of a maze, but it's not on the cover. The miniature building must be symbolic. There are two girls and a boy, and the scowling man is definitely in there.

This is one of Ms. Whiney's juvenile mysteries that involves stepfamilies. In this case, both heroine Joanna 'Jo' Baird and a girl named Liza Prentice are facing the prospect of their mothers providing them with stepfathers. Neither girl likes the man her mother wants to marry. Both wish to find a reason to keep their mothers single, but Liza has fewer scruples than Jo.

The boy is Erik Thoresen, son of the man who grows the vegetables for Scott Dennis' hotel (Scott is Joe's prospective stepfather), cares for the orchards, and makes old-fashioned furniture using old wood and authentic old-time methods.

Liza Prentice is certain that her mother's man, Roger 'Inky' Inklander, is a crook, but he could be just a bullying jerk who didn't hesitate to hurt Eric's cat, Snowdrop (the cat will recover). Liza is manipulative enough to suggest that Scott is mixed up in whatever crooked delas Inky is mixed up in to get Jo's help. Unfortunately, Jo takes the fall for a few of Liza's deeds.

Erik is also certain that Inky is up to something illegal and it has to do with his father's woodworking. Are Liza and Eric right?
There will be a chilling race for safety during the climax before the truth comes out. The stone face will be part of it.

The first several chapters seemed a little too much "been there, done that" to me, but the book picked up. Ms. Whitney had a habit of writing both a juvenile mystery and an adult mystery based on her travels. The adult book was The Stone Bull. The author's note stated that Mohonk Mountain House at Lake Mohonk, near New Paltz, on the edge of the Catskills was the inspiration for this book, although none of the events took place there.

Although I didn't enjoy this book as much as I did the Whitney mysteries I read when I was a schoolgirl decades ago, it was worth reading.

Cat fans: Snowdrop does get a few scenes in this book.
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JalenV | Feb 22, 2024 |
This book has become a classic story of suspense and romance set in San Francisco in the momentous year of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of April 1906. Based on a true event.

FROM AMAZON: Sara Bishop was raised in Chicago, but her heart belongs in San Francisco, where her childhood sweetheart, Ritchie Temple, has moved to pursue a career in architecture. Convinced he feels the same way for her, she hopes his fiancée, the manipulative Judith Renwick, is just a passing fancy. And now Sara has packed her bags to prove it. Sarah’s mother is not only concerned by her daughter’s pursuit of an elusive romance, she’s also scared of the city itself—and the secret she and Sara’s father buried there years ago.

Once Sara arrives on the far side of the Golden Gate, she finds herself in the midst of a tantalizing puzzle involving Ritchie, Judith, and Judith’s mysterious brother. She soon discovers a monstrously wicked matriarch nursing a strange and unfathomable vengeance in her Nob Hill mansion. And one fateful morning, when the earth moves and the city is set afire, the pieces of Sara’s past will emerge from the ashes—but will it be too late to save her?
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Gmomaj | 3 outras críticas | Nov 11, 2023 |
A tense, enthralling story of a spirited young woman that discovers she is the pawn in a man's vicious game.
 
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Gmomaj | Nov 11, 2023 |
Malinda looks for a secret that could free her from a frightening past when she returns to Silverhill, her mother's home.

FROM AMAZON: After decades away, Malinda Rice returns to the New Hampshire estate of Silverhill to make sure her departed mother is buried in her rightful place in the family plot. Still carrying the scars of her past, she’s determined to solve the mysteries behind the bad blood that has divided her family. But, like old memories, Malinda is not welcome at Silverhill.

She faces her embittered grandmother, a manipulative tyrant to be feared and never crossed. And her disturbed aunt is lost in a fantasy world, desperate to be rescued. Malinda finds solace with the handsome family doctor, whom she discovers is the only person she can trust, however guarded. The secrets in this deceptive hall of mirrors run deeper and darker than she imagined. Now, while seeking the truth in a mansion haunted by lies, twisted memories, and ruined lives, she must also fight for her sanity—and her life.
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Gmomaj | 4 outras críticas | Nov 11, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
109
Also by
18
Membros
10,480
Popularidade
#2,270
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Críticas
151
ISBN
785
Línguas
14
Marcado como favorito
14

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