Name Mabel Seeley Role Writer | ||
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Died 1991, New Jersey, United States People also search for Mignon G. Eberhart, Elizabeth Linington, Ramona Stewart Books The chuckling fingers, The crying sisters, The beckoning door, The whistling shadow, The listening house | ||
Education University of Minnesota | ||
Mabel Seeley
Mabel Seeley (née Hodnefield) (March 25, 1903 Herman, Minnesota – 1991) was an American mystery writer.
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Her family moved to St. Paul in 1920 where she attended Mechanic Arts High School and graduated summa cum laude from University of Minnesota. 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. 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. In the late 1940s she and her son Gregory moved to California. 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.