Alice Ormond Campbell was an American author of romantic thrillers with female protagonists. She was born in Georgia, U. S. A., later moving to England.
Alice Ormond moved to New York City at the age of nineteen and quickly became a socialist and women’s suffragist (this according the blurb on a 1939 Penguin paperback edition of one of her books — evidently Penguin did not deem it necessary to shield potential readers from knowledge of this author’s less than conservative background).
The adventurous Ormond moved to Paris some time around 1910 ("Paris was where the twentieth century was," memorably declared Gertrude Stein). There she married the American-born artist and writer James Lawrence Campbell and had a son in 1914. After World War One, the family left France for England, where Campbell continued writing crime fiction until 1950 (the year The Corpse Had Red Hair appeared).
Bibliography
Juggernaut (1928)
Water Weed (1929)
Spiderweb (1930)
The Click of the Gate (1932)
The Murder of Caroline Bundy (1933)
Desire To Kill (1934)
Keep Away From the Water! (1935)
Death Framed in Silver (1937)
Flying Blind (1938)
A Door Closed Softly (1939)
They Hunted A Fox (1940)
No Murder of Mine (1941)
No Light Came on (1942)
Ringed With Fire (1943)
Travelling Butcher (1944)
The Cockroach Sings (1946)
With Bated Breath (1946)
Child's Play (1947)
The Bloodstained Toy (1948)
The Corpse Had Red Hair (1950)
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