Armstrong Lewi attended the University Of Wisconsin and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1925. She had a daughter and two sons with her husband, Jack Lewi.
In 1957, she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers Of America for her novel '' A Dram Of Poison ''. She had two other Edgar-nominated mysteries, both in 1967: ''The Gift Shop'', and ''Lemon in the Basket''.
- ''Unsuspected'', 1946 (ISBN 11224-2233-4)
- ''The Chocolate Cobweb'', 1948
- ''Mischief'', 1951
- ''The Black-Eyed Stranger'', 1952
- ''Catch as Catch Can'', 1953 (a.k.a. ''Walk Out on Death'')
- ''The Better to Eat You'', 1954 (a.k.a. ''Murder's Nest'')
- ''The Dream Walker'', 1955 (ISBN 11273-2660-0, a.k.a. ''Alibi for Murder'')
- ''Dram of Poison'', 1956 (ISBN 11170-7473-0)
- ''The Seventeen Widows of San Souci'', 1959
- ''Something Blue'', 1959
- ''Then Came Two Women'', 1962
- ''The One-Faced Girl'', 1963
- ''The Mark of the Hand'', 1963
- ''Who's Been Sitting in My Chair?'', 1963
- ''A Little Less Than Kind'', 1964
- ''Witch's House'', 1964
- ''Turret Room'', 1965
- ''Dream of Fair Woman'', 1966
- ''I See You'', 1966
- ''Gift Shop'', 1967
- ''Balloon Man'', 1968 (ISBN 11224-2235-0)
- ''Lemon in the Basket'', 1968
- ''Seven Seats to the Moon'', 1969
- ''The Protege'', 1970
The following films were adapted from Armstrog Lewi's novels.
- ''Merci pour le Chocolat'', 2000 (from the novel ''The Chocolate Cobweb'')
- ''The Sitter'', 1991 (from the novel ''Mischief'')
- ''La Rupture'', 1970 (from the novel ''The Balloon Man'')
- '' Don't Bother To Knock '', 1952 (from the novel ''Mischief'')
- ''The Three Weird Sisters'', 1948 (from the novel ''The Case of the Weird Sisters'')
- '' The Unsuspected '', 1947
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