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Jean Potts


Born
in St. Paul, Nebraska, The United States
November 17, 1910

Died
November 10, 1999


Jean Potts was born on November 17, 1910, in St. Paul, Nebraska. After she graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University, Potts became first a teacher and then a journalist, later moving to New York, which she fell in love with during a brief visit. It was there that Potts started her writing career, beginning with a mainstream novel Someone to Remember in 1943 and stories for magazines like Collier s, McCall s, Cosmopolitan and Redbook. After the success of her first mystery novel, Go, Lovely Rose (which won the Edgar Award in 1954), Potts concentrated on crime fiction, eventually writing fourteen mystery novels, translated into over seven languages. Though never made, The Evil Wish (an Edgar runner-up in 1963) was optioned for a film with B ...more

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Average rating: 3.55 · 209 ratings · 56 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors
Go, Lovely Rose / The Evil ...
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4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions
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Go, Lovely Rose
3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1954 — 12 editions
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The Only Good Secretary
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1965 — 7 editions
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The Evil Wish
3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions
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The Diehard
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1956 — 9 editions
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Home Is the Prisoner
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1960 — 8 editions
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The Man With the Cane
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Lightning Strikes Twice
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions
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The Little Lie
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions
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The Trash Stealer
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1968
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