Dolores Hitchens

Julia Clara Catharine Dolores Birk Olsen Hitchens^[1] (1907–1973), better known as Dolores Hitchens, was an American mystery novelist who wrote prolifically from 1938 until her death. She also wrote under the pseudonyms D. B. Olsen^[2], Dolan Birkley^[2] and Noel Burke^[2].

Hitchens collaborated on five railroad mysteries with her second husband, Bert Hitchens, a railroad detective^[2], and also branched out into other genres in her writing, including Western stories. Many of her mystery novels centered around a spinster character named Rachel Murdock.

Hitchens wrote Fool's Gold, the 1958 novel adapted by Jean-Luc Godard for his film Bande à part (Band of Outsiders, 1964).

Publications

as Dolores Hitchens

Jim Sader Mystery

1. Sleep with Strangers, Doubleday (publisher) 1/1955, new edition: Simon & Schuster 2/1989, ISBN 0-671-65286-9
2. Sleep with Slander, Doubleday 1960, new edition: Simon Schuster 2/1989, ISBN 0-671-65285-2

Together with Bert Hitchens

• F.O.B. Murder, Doubleday 1/1955
• One-Way Ticket, Doubleday 1/1956
• End of Line, Doubleday 1/1957
• Man Who Followed Women, Doubleday 1959
• The Grudge, Doubleday 1/1963

Standalones

• Stairway to an Empty Room, Doubleday 1/1951
• Nets to Catch the Wind aka Widows Won't Wait, Doubleday 1/1952
• Terror Lurks in Darkness, Doubleday 1953
• Beat Back the Tide aka Fatal Flirt, Doubleday 1954
• Fool's Gold, Boardman Books 1/1958
• The Watcher, Doubleday 1/1959
• Footsteps in the Night, American Bloodhound Mystery 1/1961
• The Abductor, Simon & Schuster 1962
• Bank with the Bamboo Door, Simon & Schuster 1965
• Man Who Cried All the Way Home, Simon & Schuster 1966
• Postscript to Nightmare aka Cabin of Fear, G. P. Putnam's Sons 1/1967, ISBN 0-399-10647-7
• Collection of Strangers, Putnam 1/1969, ISBN 2-720-10046-8
• Baxter Letters, Putnam 8/1971, ISBN 0-399-10073-4
• In a House Unknown, Doubleday 1973, ISBN 0-385-03265-0

Plays

• Cookie for Henry (One-Act Play for Six Women), S. French 1941

as D. B. Olsen

Rachel Murdock Mystery

1. Cat Saw Murder, Doubleday 1/1939
2. Alarm of Black Cat, Doubleday 1/1942
3. Catspaw for Murder aka Cat's Claw, Doubleday 1/1943
4. The Cat Wears a Noose, Doubleday 1944
5. Cats Don't Smile, Doubleday 1945
6. Cats Don't Need Coffins, Doubleday 1/1946
7. Cats Have Tall Shadows, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company 1/1948
8. The Cat Wears a Mask, Doubleday 1/1949
9. Death Wears Cat's Eyes, Doubleday 1/1950
10. Cat and Capricorn, Doubleday 1951
11. The Cat Walk, Doubleday 1953
12. Death Walks on Cat Feet, Doubleday 1956

Prof. A. Pennyfeather Mystery

1. Shroud for the Bride aka Bring the Bride a Shroud, Doubleday 1/1945
2. Gallows for the Groom, Doubleday 1947
3. Devious Design, Doubleday 1948
4. Something About Midnight, Doubleday 1950
5. Love Me in Death, Doubleday 1/1951
6. Enrollment Cancelled aka Dead Babes in the Wood, Doubleday 1/1952

Lt. Stephen Mayhew Mystery

1. Clue in the Clay, Phoenix Press 1938
2. Death Cuts a Silhouette, Doubleday 1/1939

as Dolan Birkley

• Blue Geranium, Bartholomew House 1/1944
• The Unloved, Doubleday 1965

as Noel Burke

• Shivering Bough, E. P. Dutton 1942

References

1. ^ Bleeker Books - Dolores Hitchens
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Ziff-Davis Fingerprint Mysteries: D. B. Olsen

Weblinks

• http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/dolores-hitchens/
• http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/o/d-b-olsen/

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Name	Hitchens, Dolores
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Date of birth	1907
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Date of death	1973
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