Lucille Fletcher was a novelist and screenwriter who worked in film, radio, and television. Her credits include the story “The Hitchhiker” (1941), later turned into both a radio drama by Orson Welles and a Twilight Zone episode, and the screenplay for the suspense thriller Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). Her nine novels include And Presumed Dead (1963).
Fletcher was married to Douglass Wallop (a second marriage for her, and a first for him). Despite her reputation as a master of mystery and suspense, she lived a conventional life, writing, raising her two children, and playing the organ in her Methodist church. She lived in DC from 1948 until her second husband’s death in 1985.
The Homes
Lucille Fletcher
3435 8th St S
Located in Northern Virginia