The Innocent Flower Explained

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]

Bibliography

• 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.

Notes and References

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