Ellen Randolph (2)

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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1963
  • Latest Book:
    January 1983
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About the Author

William Edward Daniel Ross was born on November 16, 1912 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, son of Laura (Brooks) and William Edward Ross. In 1930, while he studied, he began his career as the manager of an acting company with which he also acted. Very early in his professional life, he was awarded the Dominion Drama Festival Prize for Playwriting. During the Second World War, he served with British Entertainment Services.

He married Charlotte McCormack, who died in 1959, and remarried in 1960, with the nurse Marilyn Ann Clark. He began writing short-stories in 1950s, and novels after his second marriage. Her wife was the first reader of his works. He wrote popular romances and gothic fiction as W. E. D. Ross and Dan Ross and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Jane Rossiter, Leslie Ames, Ellen Randolph, Ann Gilmer, Rose Williams, Rose Dana, Clarissa Ross, Marilyn Ross, Jan Daniels, Charlotte McCormack, Ruth Dorset, Miriam Leslie, Amber Ross, Dana Ross, Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Diana Randall, and Marilyn Carter. He started writing erotic novels as Olin Ross, and Western novels as Dan Roberts and Tex Steele. He died on November 1, 1995 in his native Saint John, at 82, survived by his wife.

Book List in Order: 6 titles

  • Personal Secretary // Alice in Love

    Lovely Alice Winters' job as private secretary to tycoon Tom Bradley, handsome president of the Bradley Paper Company, was a demanding one. It was also full of problems. The firm was in serious financial trouble. And Tom was still depressed over ...

  • Rendezvous in Amsterdam

    Cliff Narden, at thirty, knew that the last thing he wanted to do with his life was to continue as a missile engineer. Now was the time to make the change; and accident at a Texas military base had given him plenty of time to think while lying in a h...

  • Nurse of the North Woods

    In the hope of hiding from her past, Nancy Rush became nursing supervisor at an out-of-the-way lumber camp in New Brunswick. She soon found the serenity she had been looking for, but she was caught unaware when she found herself falling in love with ...

  • The Secret of Gray Towers = The Haunting of Nurse Jean

    From the beginning, Jean Murray was reluctant to go to Graytowers - no matter how much her patient needed her - as if she sensed the terror that waited her from there. Jean Murray had been Martha Squires’ nurse at Manhattan General Hospital. Now...

  • Threads of Love

    A date ends in a car crash, and Sue Morrison has to stay on at the hospital long after her fiance and friends are able to leave, so she is the last to know her roommate and her fiance are seeing each other, and that the engagement is over....

  • Nurse Martha's Wish

    Nurse Martha Mills loved her new job at the Empress Hotel. She liked the independence, the challenge, the satisfaction of really being useful, and she liked the people she met. Here at the luxurious Empress, Martha not only dealt with routine medical...



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Ellen Randolph (2) has published 6 books.

Ellen Randolph (2) does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Nurse Martha's Wish, was published in January 1983.

The first book by Ellen Randolph (2), Personal Secretary // Alice in Love, was published in January 1963.

No. Ellen Randolph (2) does not write books in series.
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