author

Elizabeth Kent

1875–1947

A largely forgotten early 20th-century mystery writer, she published twisty, accessible novels that still read briskly today. Her best-known surviving titles, The House Opposite and Who?, helped keep her name alive through public-domain and audiobook editions.

2 Audiobooks

Who?

Who?

by Elizabeth Kent

The House Opposite: A Mystery

The House Opposite: A Mystery

by Elizabeth Kent

About the author

Elizabeth Kent was an American author of mystery fiction, born in 1875 and died in 1947. Reliable catalog and library-style sources available online agree on those dates, and modern public-domain listings describe her specifically as a mystery novelist.

Two novels are the easiest to confirm today: The House Opposite: A Mystery, published in the early 1900s, and Who?, published in 1912. Both have remained discoverable through projects such as Project Gutenberg and LibriVox, which has helped new readers encounter her work long after its original publication.

Very little biographical detail about her life appears to be widely documented on accessible, reliable web sources. What does come through clearly is her specialty: compact, suspenseful crime stories built around secrecy, mistaken identity, and classic puzzle-like intrigue.