The Black-Eyed Stranger is a 1951 mystery thriller novel by the American writer Charlotte Armstrong.

It was first published in New York by Coward-McCann, an imprint of Putnam.

[2] Despite her hopes that it might be adapted into a film, as several of her earlier works had been, it was not ultimately optioned by Hollywood studios although Alfred Hitchcock had expressed interest in it along with her previous novel Mischief.

[3] Crime reporter Sam Lynch discovers a plot to kidnap heiress Kay Salisbury.

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