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Lucille Fletcher


Born
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, The United States
March 20, 1912

Died
August 31, 2000

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Lucille Fletcher is best known for her suspense classic Sorry, Wrong Number, originally a radio play, later a novel, TV play and motion picture. She has written extensively for both screen and television, and is the author of several successful mystery novels, including Blindfold, . . . And Presumed Dead, The Strange Blue Yawl and The Girl in Cabin B54. She is the author of the recently successful Broadway play Night Watch, which was also a motion picture starring Elizabeth Taylor. A native of Brooklyn and a graduate of Vassar College, Lucille Fletcher lived on the eastern shore of Maryland with her husband, novelist Douglass Wallop, until his death in 1985.

This author bio was adapted from the bio on the dust jacket of an Eighty Dollars to
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Average rating: 3.86 · 1,468 ratings · 185 reviews · 45 distinct worksSimilar authors
Sorry, Wrong Number and The...

3.87 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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The Hitchhiker - Radio Script

3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2009
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Sorry, Wrong Number - Radio...

3.99 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Night Watch.

3.74 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions
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Sorry Wrong Number

3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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...And Presumed Dead

3.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1964 — 2 editions
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The Girl in Cabin B54

3.21 avg rating — 29 ratings6 editions
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Eighty Dollars to Stamford

3.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1975 — 6 editions
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Mirror Image

3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings4 editions
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Blindfold

3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1961 — 5 editions
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