# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlotte-jay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:29:19.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlotte-jay"
name: "Charlotte Jay"
slug: "charlotte-jay"
description: "Geraldine Halls was an Australian mystery writer and novelist who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Charlotte Jay, Jay being Halls's maiden name. Halls' book Beat Not the Bones won the then newly created Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers' Association of America for Best Novel of the Year in 1954. The crime novel, The Fugitive Eye was adapted for television for a drama series in 1961. The episode starred Charlton Heston and the series was hosted by Fred Astaire."
tagline: "Australian writer (1919-1996)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-12-17"
deathDate: "1996-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.75
  momentum:             1.855670103092784
  historical:           7.204140000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1511427/"
    handle:    "nm1511427"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Шарлотта Джей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%87_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "شارلوته جاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Jay"
    title: "Charlotte Jay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Jay"
    title: "Charlotte Jay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Jay"
    title: "Charlotte Jay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Jay"
    title: "Charlotte Jay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4"
    title: "シャーロット・ジェイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Jay"
    title: "Charlotte Jay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1067222"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump