Stanton Forbes

Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes (July 10, 1923 – October 22, 2013) was an American writer. She wrote books and stories under several pseudonyms, including Stanton Forbes, Tobias Wells In the 1940s, Forbes worked as a reporter for a local newspaper after attending "what is now Oklahoma State University",

She was 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 was the author of 41 published novels… She lived and worked, until her death, in Sanford, FL."

Forbes died in October 2013 at the age of 90.