Stanton Forbes

Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes (July 10, 1923 – October 22, 2013) was an American writer. She wrote books and stories under several pseudonyms, including Tobias Wells[1] and DeLoris S. Forbes. She was born Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes.

Forbes was born in Kansas City, Missouri in July 1923.[1][2]In the 1940s, Forbes worked as a reporter for a local newspaper after attending "what is now Oklahoma State University",[1] then worked as a crime reporter in Baton Rouge, La..[1] From 1958 to 1973 she was assistant editor of The Wellesley Townsman before moving to St. Martin in 1973.[3]

She was the author of several mystery novels, including A Deadly Kind of Lonely (1971), Buried in So Sweet a Place (1978), The Sad, Sudden Death of My Fair Lady (1971), and Go To Thy Deathbed (1969), which was made into the film A Reflection of Fear.[4]

According to the dust jacket of her novel When the Hearse Goes by (2002), "DeLoris Staton Forbes was the author of 41 published novels... She lived and worked, until her death, in Sanford, FL."[5]

Forbes died in October 2013 at the age of 90.[6]

References
  1. "Veteran Author Has Passion For Writing". Orlando Sentinel.
  2. Forbes, Stanton. "Stanton Forbes". goodreads.com. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  3. Kaser, James A. (2011-02-01). The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9781461672586.
  4. "Stanton Forbes - IMDB".
  5. Forbes, Deloris Stanton (March 2002). When the Hearse Goes by. ISBN 9780595220120.
  6. Stop, You're Killing Me!: Stanton Forbes



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