Nancy Rutledge

Nancy Rutledge was born in Chicago and educated at Rockford College and Northwestern. Between 1944 and 1960, she authored ten works of crime fiction under her own name, two of them published only in England. She also had one mystery novel published as by Leigh Bryson, a Handi-Book paperback original in 1947. In the 1950s and ’60s, she had eight mystery novels serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and one that appeared complete in an issue of Redbook.

Nancy Rutledge

Nancy Rutledge was born in Chicago and educated at Rockford College and Northwestern. Between 1944 and 1960, she authored ten works of crime fiction under her own name, two of them published only in England. She also had one mystery novel published as by Leigh Bryson, a Handi-Book paperback original in 1947. In the 1950s and ’60s, she had eight mystery novels serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and one that appeared complete in an issue of Redbook.

Books by Nancy Rutledge

  • Blood on the Cat

    Nancy Rutledge, Otto Penzler

    Hardback, 2025

    When a small town tycoon meets his end, everyone’s a suspect—but it takes a clever cat to reveal the essential clue.
  • Blood on the Cat

    Nancy Rutledge, Otto Penzler

    E Book

    When a small town tycoon meets his end, everyone’s a suspect—but it takes a clever cat to reveal the essential clue.
  • Blood on the Cat

    Nancy Rutledge, Otto Penzler

    Paperback, 2025

    When a small town tycoon meets his end, everyone’s a suspect—but it takes a clever cat to reveal the essential clue.