DeLoris Florine Stanton Forbes was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She was an author and journalist. She is the creator of 'Knute Severson', a Boston policeman (under the pseudonym 'Tobias Wells'). |
Titles and year of publication:
'Knute Severson' Novels (as 'Tobias Wells') | |
1) A Matter of Love and Death | 1966 |
2) Dead by the Light of the Moon | 1967 |
3) What Should You Know of Dying? | 1967 |
4) Murder Most Fouled Up | 1968 |
5) Die Quickly, Dear Mother | 1969 |
6) The Young Can Die Protesting | 1969 |
7) Dinky Died | 1970 |
8) The Foo Dog (UK Title: The Lotus Affair [1973]) | 1971 |
9) What to Do Until the Undertaker Comes | 1971 |
10) A Die in the Country | 1972 |
11) How to Kill a Man | 1972 |
12) Brenda's Murder | 1973 |
13) Have Mercy Upon Us | 1974 |
14) Hark, Hark, the Watchdogs Bark | 1975 |
15) A Creature Was Stirring | 1977 |
16) Of Graves, Worms and Epitaphs | 1988 |
Other Novels | |
1) Grieve for the Past | 1963 |
2) The Terrors of the Earth (UK Title: The Long Hate [1966]) (Also published as: Melody of Terror [1967]) | 1964 |
3) Relative to Death | 1965 |
4) Terror Touches Me | 1966 |
5) A Business of Bodies | 1966 |
6) Encounter Darkness | 1967 |
7) If Two of Them Are Dead | 1968 |
8) Go to Thy Death Bed | 1968 |
9) The Name's Death, Remember Me? | 1969 |
10) She Was Only the Sheriff's Daughter | 1970 |
11) If Laurel Shot Hardy the World Would End (UK Title: Murder Runs Riot [1971]) | 1970 |
12) The Sad, Sudden Death of My Fair Lady | 1971 |
13) All for One and One for Death | 1971 |
14) A Deadly Kind of Lonely | 1971 |
15) But I Wouldn't Want to Die There | 1972 |
16) Welcome, My Dear, to Belfry House | 1973 |
17) Some Poisoned by Their Wives | 1974 |
18) Bury Me in Gold Lamé | 1974 |
19) Buried in So Sweet a Place | 1977 |
20) The Will and Last Testament of Constance Cobble | 1980 |
21) Don't Die on Me, Billy Jean | 1987 |
22) One Man Die on Base (as 'DeLoris Stanton Forbes') | 2001 |
23) When the Hearse Goes By (as 'DeLoris Stanton Forbes') | 2002 |
24) The Perils of Marie Louise (as 'DeLoris Stanton Forbes') | 2003 |
As 'Forbes Rydell' (with Helen B. Rydell) | |
1) Annalisa | 1959 |
2) If She Should Die | 1961 |
3) They're Not Home Yet | 1962 |
4) No Questions Asked | 1963 |