Author:Isabel Egenton Ostrander

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Isabel Egenton Ostrander
(1883–1924)

American mystery writer. In the 1920s, Ostrander was notable enough that Agatha Christie parodied her in her Tommy and Tuppence anthology, Partners in Crime (1929). Pen names: Robert Orr Chipperfield, David Fox, Douglas Grant and Isabel Ostrander.

Isabel Egenton Ostrander

Works[edit]

  • "The One Who Knew," serialized in All-Story (1912)
  • "The Heritage of Cain," serialized in Cavalier (1912)
  • "The Affair Across the Street," serialized in Cavalier (1913)
  • "Eyes That Saw Not," serialized in Cavalier (1914)
  • "The Man Who Died," serialized in All-Story Cavalier Weekly (1914)
  • The Primal Law (1915)
  • "The Crevice" (1915) (with William J. Burns) serialized in The Blue Book Magazine,
  • At One-Thirty (1915) (a.k.a. "At 1.30") [Damon Gaunt]
  • "Mystery of the Poison Pen" (1917) serialized in All-Story Weekly, 1917
  • "Between Heaven and Earth" (1917) serialized in All-Story Weekly, 1917
  • The Island of Intrigue (1918)
  • Suspense, (1918) serialized in All-Story Weekly, 1918
  • The Twenty-Six Clues, (1919) serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 1920 [McCarty & Riordan]
  • Ashes to Ashes, All-Story Weekly, Sep 27–Nov 1 1919
  • How Many Cards?, 1920 [McCarty & Riordan]
  • The Crimson Blotter 1921
  • The Tattooed Arm 1922 (c. 1921)
  • McCarty Incog., 1922 [McCarty & Riordan]
  • The Tattooed Arm, 1922
  • "Annihilation," 1924; serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 1923
  • Liberation, 1924; in Argosy All-Story Weekly, Jul 19 1924
  • Annihilation, 1924; serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 1923 [McCarty & Riordan]
  • Dust to Dust, 1924
  • The Black Joker (1925)
  • The Neglected Clue (1925)
  • The Mathematics of Guilt (1926)
  • The Sleeping Cat (1926)

As Robert Orr Chipperfield[edit]

As Douglas Grant[edit]

  • The Fifth Ace (1918) in The Argosy, 1917–1918
  • Booty, (1918) serialized in The Argosy, 1918
  • The Single Trace, (1919) serialized in The Argosy, 1919
  • Anything Once, (1920) serialized in The Argosy, 1920
  • Two-Gun Sue, (1922) serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 1922

As David Fox[edit]

  • The Shadowers (1920)
    • 1: "The Man Who Convicted Himself," All-Story Weekly, May 1, 8, 1920
  • The Doom Dealer, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Mar 24 1923

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1934, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 89 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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