Isabel Ostrander (1883–1924)
Author of The Clue in the Air
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Robert Orr Chipperfield was one of many pseudonyms used by American mystery writer Isabel Egenton Ostrander (1883-1924) She also wrote as David Fox and Douglas Grant. Although she may have written with Christopher B. Booth, they were not the same person.
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Works by Isabel Ostrander
The Tattooed Arm 3 copies
Mathematics of guilt 3 copies
The Second Bullet 3 copies
How many cards? 3 copies
The Black Joker 3 copies
Dust to dust 3 copies
Liberation 2 copies
Unseen hands 2 copies
Isabel Ostrander’s Collected Works: At One-Thirty, The Crevice, The Fifth Ace, Anything Once (2013) 2 copies
The primal law 1 copy
ISABEL OSTRANDER: Mystery & Western Classics: One Thirty, The Crevice, Anything Once, The Fifth Ace & Island of Intrigue (2017) 1 copy
The heritage of Cain 1 copy
The man in the jury box 1 copy
The Trigger of Conscience 1 copy
Bright Lights 1 copy
The Single Track 1 copy
The Doom Dealer 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Chipperfield, Robert Orr
Fox, David
Grant, Douglas - Birthdate
- 1883
- Date of death
- 1924-04-23
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- mystery writer
detective fiction author
scriptwriter - Short biography
- Isabel Ostrander was born in New York City to Thomas E Ostrander and his wife Harriet Elizabeth Bradbrook. She was descended from 17th-century settlers in Kingston, NY. She became a prolific mystery writer who used, besides her real name, the pseudonyms Robert Orr Chipperfield, David Fox, and Douglas Grant. By the 1920s, Ostrander was famous enough that Agatha Christie parodied her in the Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, Partners in Crime. She is also credited on IMDB.com as the screenwriter of six short early films.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Long Beach, California, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Robert Orr Chipperfield was one of many pseudonyms used by American mystery writer Isabel Egenton Ostrander (1883-1924) She also wrote as David Fox and Douglas Grant. Although she may have written with Christopher B. Booth, they were not the same person.
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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- Works
- 34
- Members
- 106
- Popularity
- #181,886
- Rating
- 2.9
- ISBNs
- 27
- Languages
- 1