The Scent of the Roses

Year of Publication
1963
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
239 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Aleen Leslie
Publisher
The Viking Press
City
New York
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Abstract
Ten-year-old Jane Carlyle is received into the bosom of the Webers, a large, German-American clan which owns and runs a dry goods store. Jane has had amnesia since her hotel room in New York was sacked and her mother murdered, her father a suspect.
Author Biography
Born Aleen Wetstein in Pittsburgh (1908-2010), she never finished Ohio State because of the Depression, yet wrote a popular 1930s column, “One Girl Chorus,” for the The Pittsburgh Press for a decade. When she developed A Date with Judy, it became a hit radio show in the 1940s. She married a Pittsburgh lawyer named Jacques Leslie and the two moved to California, where Aleen became one a few female screenwriters for Columbia Pictures. She started by writing Three Stooges scripts. One of her better, funnier screenplays is Father Was a Fullback (1949) starring Fred MacMurray. Aleen Leslie died at her Beverly Hills home just three days short of her 102nd birthday.
Time
1908
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