Hilda Lawrence

Hilda Lawrence (1906-1976) was an American author of mysteries. She was born Hildegarde Kronmiller in Baltimore educated in Rochester, New York, where she married and later divorced playwright Reginald Lawrence. She worked as a reader to the blind and in the clippings department of Macmillan publishers. Her first book was Blood Upon the Snow (1944), a commercial success, which introduced her detective Mark East. She wrote only three more novels: A Time to Die (1945), Death of a Doll (1947) and The Pavilion (1948). A collection of novelettes, Duet of Death came out in 1949.