Dell Shannon (1921–1988)
Author of Exploit of Death
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Dell Shannon was a pen name of Elizabeth Linington. She also used Anne Blaisdell, Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill. She also published under her own name. Do not combine her with Del Shannon (1934–1990), the singer-songwriter.
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Works by Dell Shannon
The First Linington Quartet: Greenmask!; No Evil Angel; Date with Death; Something Wrong (1964) 22 copies, 1 review
Forging an Empire: Queen Elizabeth 2 copies
Death odf a BusyBody 1 copy
Flash Attachment 1 copy
Meurtres en souffrance 1 copy
The Anglophile 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Linington, Barbara Elizabeth
- Other names
- Linington, Elizabeth
Blaisell, Anne (pen name)
Egan, Lesley (pen name)
O'Neill, Egan (pen name)
Shannon, Dell (pen name) - Birthdate
- 1921-03-11
- Date of death
- 1988-04-05
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Aurora, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- Arroyo Grande, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Glendale, California, USA
- Education
- Glendale College (BA|1942)
- Occupations
- crime novelist
historical novelist
writer - Short biography
- Elizabeth Linington was a prolific novelist and writer, producing about 80 books in her career. Called the "queen of the procedurals," she was one of the first American women to write police procedurals — a male-dominated genre before that. Her novel Case Pending (1960), which introduced her most popular series character, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, head of the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide squad, was awarded runner-up for Best First Mystery Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Nightmare (1961) and Knave of Hearts (1962), in the same series, both were nominated for Edgar Awards in the Best Novel category. Her interests in archaeology, the occult, gemstones, antique weapons, and languages were reflected in her works. As noted below, she wrote under numerous pen names.
- Disambiguation notice
- Dell Shannon was a pen name of Elizabeth Linington. She also used Anne Blaisdell, Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill. She also published under her own name. Do not combine her with Del Shannon (1934–1990), the singer-songwriter.
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- Works
- 107
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 3,543
- Popularity
- #7,169
- Rating
- 3.0
- Reviews
- 59
- ISBNs
- 358
- Languages
- 2
- Favorited
- 4
The second case is anything but amusing. A young man named Ronald Morgenstern and his bride-to-be Ruth Evans are gunned down in her driveway after returning home from the movies. Ronald was by all accounts a good egg, attending a lesser college on the cheap. Ruthie comes from a family with money, but she’s also a good egg, working as a social worker despite her family’s position in the community. Who was the target, Ronald or Ruthie, or was it both? Ruthie’s address book gives Maddox a long list of suspects. Yet every time Maddox and his pals think they have someone who looks good for the killings, it washes out. Linington makes it incredibly entertaining to be in the shoes of Maddox and the police as they attack every new lead.… (more)