author
Armstrong Livingston
b. 1885
A New York-born mystery writer with a taste for travel, he built brisk detective stories and thrillers out of cosmopolitan settings and old-world atmosphere. His books carry the mood of the interwar years while staying clear, readable, and full of forward motion.
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The Monk of Hambleton
by Armstrong Livingston
About the author
Born in New York City in 1885, Armstrong Livingston was educated at St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island, and also studied in Europe. Publisher material for The Monk of Hambleton says he began his writing career in 1918, and it also notes that he traveled widely.
Livingston is remembered chiefly as a writer of mystery and detective fiction. Contemporary book-related sources connect him with novels such as The Monk of Hambleton, The Mystery of the Twin Rubies, The Murdered and the Missing, and The Monster in the Pool. The combination of American polish and European settings gives his work a slightly glamorous, roaming quality.
Later notices suggest that he and his wife spent time living in Algiers, with trips to Paris and London. Reliable biographical details are fairly scarce, but the available sources agree that he was born in 1885 and place his death in 1948.