Crane, Frances(1890-1981) Taos & Santa Fe. Noted mystery author and reviewer; writer of articles for periodicals including The New Yorker. Moved to Taos in the 1940s, using the setting as the inspiration for the first book in her mystery series featuring Pat and Jean Abbott, The Turquoise Shop, in the fictional town of "Santa Maria New Mexico". The series continued over several dozen titles, with some others set in New Mexico but also New Orleans and San Francisco; the series was the basis for a radio program, Abbott Mysteries, that ran 1945-1947, and another entitled Adventures of the Abbotts, 1954-55. The first book in the series features a character based upon Mabel Dodge Luhan.