Item: Book - Fiction / Gothic Suspense 👻
Title: The Crying Sisters
Author: Mabel Seeley
College: Minnesota Golden Gophers
Lakefront Resort Mystery - Early Gothic Suspense
Pyramid Books #X-1298
Pages: App. 252 pages
Dimensions: App. 7" x 4.25"
Published: 1939 (Original) / 1966 (2nd Printing)
Paperback
Condition: Book is in Used Very Good shape / Has light corner, edge and cover wear.
Binding is very tight. Solid Complete & Clean.
Harder to find
Less than 5 other copies of this edition remain on eBay (at time of listing)
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Mabel Seeley | |
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| Born | Mabel Hodnefield March 25, 1903 Herman, Minnesota |
| Died | June 9, 1991 (aged 88) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Notable works | The Chuckling Fingers |
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In 1926 she married fellow student Kenneth Seeley and they moved to Chicago, where she wrote advertising copy for a department store. This experience she used as background of the heroine in her first book, The Listening House. The Seeleys returned to Minnesota for medical treatment when Ken contracted tuberculosis, but they later divorced. In the late 1940s she and her son Gregory moved to Colorado.
All of her books with the exception of "Eleven Came Back" were set in Minnesota, and Seeley took pains to capture her Midwestern setting, including visiting a North Shore lake at nighttime to capture an eerie feeling for her book The Crying Sisters.[2]
Though her work is not well known today, Seeley was popular during her lifetime, and was positively reviewed in notable publications like the New York Times, Saturday Review and The New Yorker.[3] St. Paul literary critic James Gray called her "a high priestess in the cult of murder as a fine art."[4] The Minnesota newspaper St. Cloud Times called her "one of the best mystery writers in the United States" in a 1942 article.[2] In 1939, The Saturday Review of Literature named The Crying Sisters the best mystery of the year.[2] The Chuckling Fingers won the Mystery of the Year award in 1941. In 1945 she was an early member of the Mystery Writers of America and served on its first Board of Directors.
Mystery writer Diana Killian, who counts Seeley as an early influence, notes that Seeley's protagonists were noteworthy as strong, independent women decades before modern feminism: "The typical Seeley heroine is smart, frank and strong-willed. [She is] a working middle-class woman: a librarian, a copy-writer, a stenographer."[3]
In 1954, while in the East to promote her last book, The Whistling Shadow, Mabel Seeley met lawyer Henry Ross. They married two years later and settled in New Jersey. After her second marriage, she stopped writing; after her death, Ross told a reporter she had done so to devote more time to her marriage
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