Jean Potts was born on November 17, 1910, in St. Paul, Nebraska. After she graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University, Potts became first a teacher and then a journalist, later moving to New York, which she fell in love with during a brief visit. It was there that Potts started her writing career, beginning with a mainstream novel—Someone to Remember in 1943—and stories for magazines like Collier's, McCall's, Cosmopolitan and Redbook. After the success of her first mystery novel, Go, Lovely Rose (which won the Edgar Award in 1954), Potts concentrated on crime fiction, eventually writing fourteen mystery novels, translated into over seven languages. Though never made, The Evil Wish (an Edgar runner-up in 1963) was optioned for a film with Barbara Stanwyck and Sir Ralph Richardson. Potts died in New York City on November 10, 1999.
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- Death of a Stray Cat/An Affair of the Heart
- 979-8-88601-005-3
- "Like all of Potts' work, this is extremely readable. The characters ring true, and… the story itself rockets along at a nice, fast pace."—Chocolate Cobwebs. New introduction by Curtis Evans.
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- Lightning Strikes Twice / The Trash Stealer
- 978-1-951473-89-1
- "It's a pleasure to welcome Jean Potts' Lightning Strikes Twice … I doubt that you'll readily forget her awkward, infuriating adolescent heroine."—New York Times. New introduction by Curtis Evans. November 2022.
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- The Diehard / My Brother's Keeper
- 978-1-951473-74-7
- "In a Midwest small town Miss Potts has set another wonderfully human, vivid and believable story about our own kind of people."—San Francisco Chronicle. New introduction by Curtis Evans. May 2022.
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- Footsteps on the Stairs / The Troublemaker
- 978-1-951473-55-6
- "The would‐be sleuths almost outnumber the suspects and there are only a few scenes of real suspense… it's too bad that one of them is almost certainly the killer."—Dead Yesterday. New introduction by Curtis Evans. January 2022.
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- The Only Good Secretary / The Man With the Cane
- 978-1-951473-40-2
- "Miss Potts displays again her peculiar genius for portraying people who might live in the next block from you, in a genuinely fine and absorbing story."—San Francisco Chronicle. New introduction by Bill Kelly. July 2021.
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- Home is the Prisoner / The Little Lie
- 978-1-944520-90-8
- "In Potts' fictional world there are no true good or bad characters, just many shades of gray, but she writes them in a way that makes you care about them, warts and all."—In Reference to Murder. New introduction by J. F. Norris. February 2020.
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- Go, Lovely Rose / The Evil Wish
- 978-1-944520-65-6
- A 1954 Edgar Award winner and a 1963 Edgar runner-up paired together for the first time. "A skillfully devised and movingly presented drama of sin, retribution, and supreme sacrifice."—Chicago Tribune. New introduction by John Norris. February 2019.
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