Ursula Curtiss

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1951
  • Latest Book:
    June 1988
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Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • The Second Sickle aka The Hollow House

    A gloved hand reached for the sickle…and another woman was doomed! Just outside Boston, in a peaceful seaside town, a woman lay slashed and bloody, cut down by a madman’s sickle… In another part of town, a desperate young woman disappeared, ...

  • The Iron Cobweb

    Of what was Elizabeth March afraid? Was it her husband’s strange way of spying on her? Or the suspicious actions of the other people in the house? Was someone really tampering with her sleeping pills? Poisoning the children? Forging her name t...

  • The Noonday Devil

    Nick Sentry had eluded the snare of the hunters, had come safely out of Bataan into prison camp. The day by day hazards of war had left him alive and well enough to try for freedom. But his escape was climaxed by the noonday devil, murder, his own. A...

  • The Face of the Tiger

    With the instinct of the hunted, Lou Fabian knew that a killer was watching her, waiting with the cunning of a jungle beast to make the fatal leap. She knew, too, that it would be useless to tell her employer that one of his wealthy, frivolous guests...

  • Voice Out of Darkness

    Bait for a Trap Young Katy Meredith had never intended to return to the town where she had grown up. In New York she had built a new life for her own, safe from the terrifying memories of her childhood and from the tragedy that had threatened to s...

  • The Deadly Climate

    Near panic gripped her, lost in the white dusk of fog and darkness. Where was the road back to the little town she had arrived at but yesterday? Could she ever escape from this fearsome, smoky pool in which she was wondering? Suddenly two figure...

  • The Stairway

    Hate Gave Way to Horror Madeline Potter’s marriage was a nightmare. Her husband, Stephen was a sadistic bully who kept Madeline prisoner by his threat to gain custody of their son Matthew should Madeline seek a divorce. Even though Stephen is...

  • The Forbidden Garden; Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Mrs. Marrable, an elderly widow, hid a ferocious animal cunning behind her mask of tart respectability. Her main interest was gardening, which fitted in admirably with her business of murder. She kept a line of handsome poplars at the edge of her cou...

  • Out of the Darkness

    Six children, left alone when the baby-sitter can't make it, invent anew game: they call people on the phone, at random, and say "I know who you really are and what you did." Naturally one of the victims of their prank is an undiscovered ...



  • The Wasp

    THE WASP ZOOMED UP from the floor of the car. Kate swung her head blindly, the wheel followed -- and then, out of nowhere, flashed a small figure on a red tricycle. There was an impact, and the car rocked to a halt. By the time Kate had the door open...

  • Danger: Hospital Zone

    Fear stalks the corridors as Emily Reid discovers a game of homicidal hide-and-seek. The trouble began when Emily Reid was awakened at dawn by the confused ramblings of the new patient in the semi-private room. Something about a dog and a lily and...

  • Don't Open the Door!

    Death came to call on three women in a quiet town. It came in many guises - a note, the phone, a knock at the gate. It lurked in lilac bushes and abandoned toolsheds, peered through curtained windows, and struck with relentless fury! The town lock...

  • Letter of Intent

    "If you don't call off the wedding - I will!" Celia Brett received the printed, unsigned message ont he eve of her marriage to a wealthy, prominent man. Once a dowdy inarticulate housekeeper, Celia had blossomed into a poised and sleekly striki...

  • In Cold Pursuit

    Whilst in the Mexican town of Juarez, Mary and her cousin Jenny each encounter strange men, but neither of them realizes that one of these men is obsessed with revenge and murder. But which one? The man in the blue car parked in the shadows down t...

  • So Dies the Dreamer

    A sane, happily married man does not throw himself out of a twelfth-story window. Nor could Sarah Trafton accept the psychiatrist's monstrous theory that her husband Charles had been driven to kill himself before she could kill him. That his dreadful...

  • The Menace Within

    When her aunt had been taken to hospital after a bad stroke, Amanda was left in charge of her house. Amanda knew about her aunt's dog but she didn't know about the secret underground shelter built beneath the house. This hiding place had been...

  • The Poisoned Orchard

    The mousy young woman who knocked at Sarah Malcolm’s door that snowy January evening carried to suggestion of misfortune to come. From her tentative smile and her satchel-like handbag, Sarah thought that the woman was selling something until she as...

  • Dig a Little Deeper

    Lydia goes back to Connecticut for her cousin’s wedding and has promised a friend that, while there, she will deliver a present to a Paula Blake who apparently lives down the road. But her visit to the Blake’s turns out to be vaguely unpleasan...

  • Dog in the Manger

    Not until they heard her will read did Mrs. Ivy’s stunned niece and two nephews realize that their elderly and very deaf aunt must have been wearing a hearing aid the night they came to dinner. Overhearing their spiteful remarks, she had left them ...



  • Death of a Crow

    Laura Fourte was walking home with her two-year-old stepson Max when a loud shot reverberated in the park and a crow came tumbling down from the sky. Max screamed in wild hysterical fear, and Laura, stunned, tried to comfort him. There had to be a re...

  • Widow's Web

    THE WIDOW WAS A KILLER… Martin Fennister’s death was officially listed as a suicide. Annabelle, his widow, inherited a merely thirty thousand. Then Gerald Mallow died in a mysterious automobile accident. He had a lot of money and he l...

  • The House on Plymouth Street

    Contains: -Introduction by Mary McMullen -The House of Plymouth Street -The Right Perspective -Tiger by the Tail -Something Green and Growing -The Old Barn on the Pond -Good Neighbor -A Judicious Half Inch -The Marked Man -Change of Climate...

  • Hours to Kill

    But she went on wondering, while she put potatoes in to bake, took frozen vegetables out of the refrigerator, swept up some cereal Hilary had poked under the radiator.... Hilary was, loosely speaking, another human being, a voice and a full set of...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ursula Curtiss has published 23 books.

Ursula Curtiss does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hours to Kill, was published in June 1988.

The first book by Ursula Curtiss, The Second Sickle aka The Hollow House, was published in January 1951.

No. Ursula Curtiss does not write books in series.
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