Charlotte Jay
Charlotte Jay | |
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Born | Geraldine Mary Jay (1919-12-17)17 December 1919 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
Died | 27 October 1996(1996-10-27) (aged 76) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
Occupation | Writer |
Notable work | Beat Not the Bones |
Geraldine Halls (17 December 1919 – 27 October 1996) was an Australian mystery writer and novelist who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Charlotte Jay, Jay being Halls's maiden name. Halls' book Beat Not the Bones won the then newly created Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers' Association of America for Best Novel of the Year in 1954. The crime novel, The Fugitive Eye was adapted for television for a drama series in 1961.[1] The episode starred Charlton Heston and the series was hosted by Fred Astaire.
Life
Halls was born as Geraldine Mary Jay in Adelaide, South Australia on the 17 December 1919. She attended Girton School (now Pembroke School) and the University of Adelaide,[2] and worked as a shorthand typist in Australia and England, and as a court stenographer in New Guinea, 1942–1950.[3]
She married Albert Halls, an Oriental specialist, who worked with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Albert Halls dealt in Oriental antiques in England and Australia.[3] Marrying Albert enabled Halls to travel to many exotic locations in which she later included in her books. Only her first novel, The Knife is Feminine, is set in Australia.[2] The other books are set in Pakistan, Japan, Thailand, England, Lebanon, India, Papua New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands.
After a long career in writing, Halls died on 27 October 1996, in her home town of Adelaide.
Works
Charlotte Jay novels
- The Knife Is Feminine (1951)
- Beat Not the Bones (1952)
- The Fugitive Eye (1953)
- The Yellow Turban (1955)
- The Man Who Walked Away (US Title: The Stepfather) (1958)
- Arms for Adonis (1960)
- A Hank of Hair (1964)
Geraldine Mary Jay novels
- The Feast of the Dead (US Title: The Brink of Silence) (1956)
Geraldine Halls novels
- The Cats of Benares (1967)
- Cobra Kite (1971)
- The Voice of the Crab (1974)
- The Last Summer of the Men Shortage (1977)
- The Felling of Thawle : a novel (1979)
- Talking to strangers : a novel (1982)
- This is My Friend's Chair (1995)
References
- ^ "Alcoa Premier: The Fugitive Eye (1961)". IMDb. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
- ^ a b Peter, Moss; Michael J Tolley (1992). A Hank of Hair: Afterword. South Australia: Wakefield Press. pp. 114–120. ISBN 1-86254-289-9.
- ^ a b Adelaide (1988) p. 84
Bibliography
- Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora
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- Charlotte Jay (1954)
- Raymond Chandler (1955)
- Margaret Millar (1956)
- Charlotte Armstrong (1957)
- Ed Lacy (1958)
- Stanley Ellin (1959)
- Celia Fremlin (1960)
- Julian Symons (1961)
- J.J. Marric (1962)
- Ellis Peters (1963)
- Eric Ambler (1964)
- John le Carré (1965)
- Adam Hall (1966)
- Nicolas Freeling (1967)
- Donald E. Westlake (1968)
- Jeffrey Hudson (1969)
- Dick Francis (1970)
- Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (1971)
- Frederick Forsyth (1972)
- Warren Kiefer (1973)
- Tony Hillerman (1974)
- Jon Cleary (1975)
- Brian Garfield (1976)
- Robert B. Parker (1977)
- William H. Hallahan (1978)
- Ken Follett (1979)
- Arthur Maling (1980)
- Dick Francis (1981)
- William Bayer (1982)
- Rick Boyer (1983)
- Elmore Leonard (1984)
- Ross Thomas (1985)
- L.R. Wright (1986)
- Barbara Vine (1987)
- Aaron Elkins (1988)
- Stuart M. Kaminsky (1989)
- James Lee Burke (1990)
- Julie Smith (1991)
- Lawrence Block (1992)
- Margaret Maron (1993)
- Minette Walters (1994)
- Mary Willis Walker (1995)
- Dick Francis (1996)
- Thomas H. Cook (1997)
- James Lee Burke (1998)
- Robert Clark (1999)
- Jan Burke (2000)
- Joe R. Lansdale (2001)
- T. Jefferson Parker (2002)
- S. J. Rozan (2003)
- Ian Rankin (2004)
- T. Jefferson Parker (2005)
- Jess Walter (2006)
- Jason Goodwin (2007)
- John Hart (2008)
- C. J. Box (2009)
- John Hart (2010)
- Steve Hamilton (2011)
- Mo Hayder (2012)
- Dennis Lehane (2013)
- William Kent Krueger (2014)
- Stephen King (2015)
- Lori Roy (2016)
- Noah Hawley (2017)
- Attica Locke (2018)
- Walter Mosley (2019)
- Elly Griffiths (2020)
- Deepa Anappara (2021)
- James Kestrel (2022)
- Danya Kukafka (2023)