Frances Crane

27 October 1890 – 6 November 1981

Frances Kirkwood Crane was an American mystery author, who introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, The Turquoise Shop (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of 26 volumes, each with a color in the title.

• The Golden Box
• So Many Steps to Death / Maigret in New York / Death in Lilac Time
• The Turquoise shop
• The amethyst spectacles
• The indigo necklace
• Death-wish green
• Murder on the purple water
• The applegreen cat
• The cinnamon murder
• The daffodil blonde
• The man in gray
• The polkadot murder