The Innocent Flower is a 1945 mystery novel by the American writer Charlotte Armstrong.[1] It is the final part of her trilogy featuring the amateur detective MacDougal Duff and was published in New York by Coward-McCann, an imprint of Putnam.[2] It was published in Britain under the alternative title Death Filled the Glass. After this trilogy, which was more in the style of the classic Golden Age story, she produced a stand-alone suspense novel The Unsuspected on the advice of her agents.[3]

The Innocent Flower
1970 edition
AuthorCharlotte Armstrong
LanguageEnglish
SeriesMacDougal Duff
GenreMystery
PublisherCoward-McCann
Publication date
1945
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Case of the Weird Sisters 

References

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  1. ^ Cypert p.139
  2. ^ Reilly p.43
  3. ^ Cypert p.63-64

Bibliography

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  • Cypert, Rick. The Virtue of Suspense: The Life and Works of Charlotte Armstrong. Associated University Press, 2008.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.