Amelia Reynolds Long
25 November 1904 - 26 March 1978
Amelia Reynolds Long was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and moved with her family to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in childhood. She earned a B.A. in 1931 and M.A. in 1932, both from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931. As a young writer, she was among the first female science fiction writers, and her short stories were published in the science fiction and weird pulp magazines of the 1930s. In the 1940s she left science fiction to write mystery novels, many of which were published under pseudonyms. Her style was influenced by Agatha Christie and her novels were "whodunit" books, as opposed to the hard-boiled crime novels that were more popular at the time. In 1951, she stopped writing mysteries and took a job editing textbooks for Stackpole Books in Harrisburg, PA, and she began to write poetry. She was a member of the Harrisburg Poetry Workshop of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society. In her later years, she was also a curator at the William Penn Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Behind the Evidence
1 edition - first published in 1936 -
The Shakespeare Murders
1 edition - first published in 1939 -
The Corpse at the Quill Club
1 edition - first published in 1940 -
Invitation to Death
1 edition - first published in 1940 -
Murder Times Three
1 edition - first published in 1940 -
Four Feet in the Grave
1 edition - first published in 1941 -
Murder by Scripture
1 edition - first published in 1942 -
Murder Goes South
1 edition - first published in 1942 -
Murder to Type
1 edition - first published in 1943 -
The Triple Cross Murders
1 edition - first published in 1943 -
Death Wears a Scarab
2 editions - first published in 1943 -
Death Looks Down
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
Murder by Treason
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
Symphony in Murder
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
Death has a will
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
If I Should Murder
1 edition - first published in 1945 -
Once Acquitted
1 edition - first published in 1945 -
Stone Dead
1 edition - first published in 1945 -
Murder from the Mind
1 edition - first published in 1946 -
Murder by Magic
1 edition - first published in 1947 -
The Shadow of Murder
1 edition - first published in 1947 -
It's Death, My Darling!
1 edition - first published in 1948 -
A Brief Case of Murder
1 edition - first published in 1949 -
The corpse came back
1 edition - first published in 1949 -
The House with Green Shudders
1 edition - first published in 1950 -
The Leprechaun Murders
1 edition - first published in 1950 -
The Lady Is Dead
1 edition - first published in 1951 -
The Lady Saw Red
1 edition - first published in 1951 -
The Round Table Murders
1 edition - first published in 1952 -
Outdoor Reference Guide
1 edition - first published in 1959
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Alternative names
- Amelia R. Long
- Patrick Laing
- Adrian Reynolds
- Peter Reynolds
History Created April 1, 2008 · 9 revisions
| April 12, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Added photos to author pages. |
| December 18, 2008 | Edited by caf21 | Added to bio |
| December 18, 2008 | Edited by caf21 | Added to bio |
| December 18, 2008 | Edited by caf21 | Added pseudonym |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |