Stanton Forbes (born July 10, 1923) is an American writer, born in Kansas City, Missouri.
She wrote books and stories under several pseudonyms, including Tobias Wells and DeLoris S.
Forbes.
She was born Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes.
In the 1940s, Forbes worked as a reporter for a local newspaper after attending "what is now Oklahoma State University", then worked as a crime reporter in Baton Rouge, La..
From 1958 to 1973 she was assistant editor of The Wellesley Townsman before moving to St.
Martin in 1973.She is 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.According to the dust jacket of her novel When the Hearse Goes by (2002), "DeLoris Staton Forbes is the author of 41 published novels...