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Ten Clues for Mr. Polkinghorn

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Title:Ten Clues for Mr. Polkinghorn
Author:
Lewi, Charlotte Armstrong  Writing under the pseudonym: Armstrong, Charlotte   
(3 of 5 for author by title)
The Trouble in Thor
The Plot Against Miss Pomeroy
Published:   1956
Publisher:Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Tags:fiction, mystery, short story
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Published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1957.

Mr. Polkinghorn could see the newspaper headlines:

Noted Mystery Writer Solves Police Problem in Real Life. It was a cinch for a man with a trained deductive mind who had no less than ten clues.--from the Editor File Card. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Lewi, Charlotte Armstrong

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Born 2 May 1905, Vulcan, Michigan; died 18 July 1969, Glendale, California.

Having begun as poet (several poems appeared in the New Yorker) and playwright (two plays ran briefly on Broadway), Charlotte Armstrong soon turned to writing suspense novels, her first three being conventional detective stories. A number of Armstrong's stories are inverted mysteries in which the identity of the criminal is revealed early. In other novels, suspense is created by a race against time. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote over 29 novels short stories and plays.

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